Do Mennonites and Mormons Live in the U.S.?

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SavannahInChicago@reddit

Joseph Smith was chased out of the state I live in, Illinois. The US probably has a little bit of every religion because the country was founded on religion freedom. This is both good and bad. We even have a Baha'i Temple north of Chicago. Its the only one in North America and its gorgeous.

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PsychologicalAir8643@reddit

Yes. We invented Mormons, and we have the largest Mennonite population in the world. You're much more likely to meet a Mormon than a Mennonite, however

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Far_Silver@reddit

You're much more likely to meet a Mormon than a Mennonite, however

In California, maybe. Not in Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, or the midwest.

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Financial_Emphasis25@reddit

We had a Mormon for a governor in the 1960s in Michigan. Governor George Romney, father Mitt Romney.

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tara_tara_tara@reddit

His son Mitt was my governor in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the early 2000s.

He was pretty good. Our Republican governors are usually pretty good.

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mykidsthinkimcool@reddit

Google AI says there are 37000 mormons, 60 LDS church buildings and one temple in Kentucky.

Not very much for a state of 4.5 million or so.

But less than 3000 "old order" Mennonites...

Again this is just Google AI.

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Far_Silver@reddit

Don't cite AI. It's autocomplete on steroids and it spouts out plausible-sounding bullshit all the time. Even when it cites sources it will make up sources or cite real sources but say that those sources say things they don't actually say.

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mykidsthinkimcool@reddit

Mormons

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/mormon-population-by-state.html

35k - 2020

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/mormon-population-by-state

39k - 2026

Mennonite

https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Kentucky_(USA)

This gives a 2010 total of anabaptist type (mennonite, Amish etc.) around 11k

I found another link that gave a 3500 number for mennonites specifically but it was from 1997.

The point still stands. You've probably encountered more Mormons in kentucky than you think.

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Castianna@reddit

Yeah, it definitely hinges on where you live/go. Growing up in the midwest, I met many Mennonites before I ever met a Mormon.

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shelwood46@reddit

They used to send Mormon missionaries to my area of Wisconsin, and ended up being chased off by the very dominant Catholic church there. About 30 years later, the Mennonites (and Amish) started buying up a lot of the farms in the rural areas, the Catholics were fine with that.

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DjinnaG@reddit

Grew up around DC and never met a Mennonite (though they have a college in western Virginia), but Mormons were everywhere. Just didn’t really ever know unless you got to know them, as their clothing is much closer to “normal” conservative Christians

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brokenman82@reddit

I think Mark Pope is the only Mormon most Kentuckians know.

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chirop1@reddit

And Colin Chandler.

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DogsBikesAndMovies@reddit

Basically the entire state of Utah is Mormon.

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DasArtmab@reddit

Or Jack Mormons

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Relevant_Elevator190@reddit

Leave me out of it.

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DasArtmab@reddit

lol

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El-Mas-Vetado@reddit

Utah is no longer majority Mormon, new research says

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GOTaSMALL1@reddit

We did it!!!

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El-Mas-Vetado@reddit

You are now a moderator of /r/exmormon

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cans-of-swine@reddit

Depends on where you live. There are Mennonites around me, but i dont know of any Mormon churches around me.

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Ill-Butterscotch1337@reddit

Exactly. I only met one Mormon until I moved out west. Conversely, if you drive through PA or New York you'll run into a bunch especially if you visit any rest stop.

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justdisa@reddit

There are also a ton of Mennonites in Oregon.

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ITrCool@reddit

We've got a growing Mormon presence where I live in Arkansas right now. The LDS sect. But the Community of Christ sect up in Independence, MO is very strong in the Kansas City area and elsewhere in that part of the country.

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blbd@reddit

Now you're in one of the states that's chockablock with Mormons. Haha.

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Ill-Butterscotch1337@reddit

theyre multiplying

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Litzz11@reddit

We have tons of them, they are literally everywhere.

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cans-of-swine@reddit

Mormons or Mennonites?

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Litzz11@reddit

Both! Probably more Mormons, though. I'm in Nashville, TN. I have some ex-Mennonites up the street from me.

If you want to know where Mormons are, just Google "Mormon Temples, USA" you'll get a map showing where they are.

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AnchoviePopcorn@reddit

The best Mormon service I’ve ever been to was the young-single-adult meeting in Nashville. So many of the members were down there pursuing music careers/degrees. The singing was top-notch.

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Sheetz_Wawa_Market32@reddit

They do exist, though. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_in_Tennessee there are 116 LDS congregations in TN. Not a lot, but not nothing.

The thing is that Mormon churches or “meeting houses” tend to be very inconspicuous. I had no idea there was a Mormon church in my small PA town until I’d shooed a couple of missionaries off my porch and googled if there even was a nearby church they would want me to go to. Turns out I’d driven by the building hundreds of times. It looked like thousands of unaffiliated “non-flashy” Christian church buildings. 🤷

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Lovebeingadad54321@reddit

I bet you would see the exact opposite in Utah and Idaho….

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mspolytheist@reddit

I’m in southeastern PA, and we have both Mennonites and Mormons. Besides having them ring my bell once more than a decade ago, I generally don’t run into any Mormons, but when I drive into Philly I sometimes catch sight of the Mormon Temple there (you can’t miss the gold angel Moroni on the top). Mennonites are all over the place, particularly if you visit any of the local farmers markets.

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Crayshack@reddit

Around me, you're more likely to meet a Mennonite. There's a decent amount of them locally, and my preferred local plant nursery is run by a Mennonite family.

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AuroraLorraine522@reddit

Depends on where you are. I never met a Mormon in PA, but met plenty of Mennonites and Amish folks.

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23onAugust12th@reddit

We invented Mormons.

USA USA USA!!!

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Lovebeingadad54321@reddit

I was raised Mennonite.. sort of… there was church a block from my house that I attended regularly growing up, but I wasn’t from a long line of Mennonite families. Anyway, when I got in my early twenties I realized what a bunch of stuck up the ass, hypocrite assholes they were, and eventually ended up atheist.

Anyway I did go to Mennonite church camp in high school, all the youth group activities. They were a typical conservative evangelical church, all God, guns and patriarchy. I remember a really sweet young woman, who was a divorced mother trying to turn her life around, and the judgmental assholes were against letting her get married in the church because she had been divorced.

The REALLY strict religious people were the Apostolic Christians. We call them AC’s for short. Their women have to wear ankle length skirts and head covering anywhere in public, not just on Sunday in church.

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FoolhardyBastard@reddit

Really depends on where you are. We have few Mormons in the upper Midwest, but we have a lot of Mennonites. Although, Mennonites don’t go door to door asking you to covert to their religion.

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TheRealDudeMitch@reddit

I don’t think I’ve ever met a Mormon. Definitely met some Amish/Mennonite folks before though.

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No_Macaron8974@reddit

I know way more Mennonite than Mormon, like in the hundreds!

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boodler88@reddit

I know this is true. Without a doubt. I just happen to live in the same community with a large Mennonite order. The only Mormons I’ve ever seen are on tv. 😂😂😂 I’ve never thought about that before.

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GreenStrong@reddit

Quite a few Mennonites in certain regions like Western Pennsylvania. Mormons are part of every community and in Utah, while I'm not sure they are a majority, they are a big and politically unified bloc who basically run the state.

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hail_to_the_beef@reddit

I was googling and apparently the Mennonite populations in Congo and Ethiopia have surpassed the US in recent years.

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Bluemonogi@reddit

Yes. Both groups are in the US. Depending on where you live the groups may be very small part of the local community or more prominent. In my area the groups are less prominent.

Some of my husband’s family are Mormon. They don’t live in a separate Mormon community. There are not a huge amount of Mormons in the area. They live and dress just like anyone else. They just go to a Mormon church.

There are some Mennonites living in my area. I think there is a family that runs a business in town. You notice the women and girls sometimes because they wear modest dresses and head coverings. Otherwise they seem to drive cars or shop at Walmart. I guess the state of Kansas has over 22,000 Mennonites but there is not a very large community near me.

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Lower_Neck_1432@reddit

Yes, Mennonites are present, generally in the same area that Amish are (since they are an offshoot). Mormons are fairly common across the country, with the highest concentrations in Utah and Colorado (natch).

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Darkdragoon324@reddit

Yes, but the majority of Mormons aren't the ones that wear the old-timey dresses and practice polygamy out in the desert, they just look like regular people and you probably won't be able to tell they're Mormon just by looking.

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GreenBeanTM@reddit

You can definitely make a guess just by looking tho. Due to a mix of their beauty standards, beliefs on marrying within the church, and history of excluding certain people from the church they’re essentially on their way to creating their own ethnicity. Google “Mormon face”

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floofienewfie@reddit

The Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints clustered around the Utah-Arizona border have been the folks who wear the old-fashioned clothing, along with the YFZ Ranch that was established in Texas. They are the ones who still practice polygamy as a tenet of their beliefs.

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MyUsername2459@reddit

You realize that Mormonism was founded in the US, right? They were founded by a guy from upstate New York who claimed to have found a long-lost third testament of the Bible depicting pre-Columbian America, claim the Garden of Eden was in Missouri, and tried to create a theocracy in the American west around the Great Salt Lake before agreeing to give up polygamy as a condition of becoming part of the US as the state of Utah, right?

They're about half of the population of the state of Utah, and are a notable minority in the state of Idaho as well.

They make up roughly 1.7% of the American population. About 46% of all Mormons live in the US, concentrated mostly in the American west, particularly Utah and Idaho.

Yes, there are Mormons in the US.

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GreenBeanTM@reddit

As much as I hate to claim him, Joseph Smith was actually born in Vermont. Same as Brigham Young who took over after Joseph Smith.

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HobsHere@reddit

Brigham Young was furious that the name Utah was chosen, which was named after the Ute people, who were mostly enemies to the Mormons. Brigham Young fully expected to have the state named Deseret, but Congress decided to annoy them on purpose.

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Uhhh_what555476384@reddit

Mormonism is extremely common throughout the inter mountain West.

The other fun fact is that almost all the foreign and clandestine service language instructors are Mormons from the mission preparatory program.

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B_A_Beder@reddit

Mormonism / LDS Church was invented in New York and the Mormons migrated to the Utah.

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Kevincelt@reddit

Yes, we’ve got a large population of traditional mennonites and other Anabaptists in the hundreds of thousands, though they tend to be of slightly different origin from some of the ones in South America. The Amish are the biggest group and a lot of them origin form the Palatinate region of Germany, which gives rise to their dialect origination from the region. A lot of Mennonites in South America speak low German.

Mormonism originates from the US and the US had by far the biggest population of Mormons in the world with over 6.8 million. They’re concentrated in Utah, eastern Idaho, and some of the surrounding states, also called the Mormon corridor, where they make up the majority of the population. Outside of that regions they’re more common in the western US, but have some populations scattered acrid the rest of the country.

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devilscabinet@reddit

Mennonites and Amish tend to be grouped in a few small regions.

Mormons are everywhere.

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eyetracker@reddit

The only time I've seen Mennonites was at SFO. Same trip saw a bunch of Tibetan monks in full regalia.

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SabresBills69@reddit

Amish/ Mennonites are common in the area of new York/ Pennsylvania to Illinois. They are a small population in terms of % of all population. They were the original off the grid types. Menonites tend to be more open to having some electricity like refrigerators.

mormonism started in western NY south of rochester, NY. innthe 1800s many areas forced them out of their areas until they decided to settle in utah. There is Mormons around the entire country

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Branagain@reddit

Laughs in Utahn

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MetalEnthusiast83@reddit

Mormons are not common around me. They are a weird cult and they don't exactly expand a lot.

There's some mennonites in Pennsylvania. They seem harmless but I don't know much about them.

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mustang6172@reddit

Yes, I live here.

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DjinnaG@reddit

Mormons don’t really have communities, outside of the fundamentalist groups, they live, work, and go to school with everyone else. Will wear clothes that are similar enough that they don’t really stand out, just maybe seem a little more on the conservative side than average. They’re everywhere, not at a large percentage in a lot of places, but they’re there

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No-Conversation1940@reddit

Yes. There are Mennonites in the county where I grew up. German is the second most spoken language in that county because of their favored German dialect.

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LinuxLinus@reddit

In my part of the US (rural Washington State), close to half of the white people are Mormons. I work with several Mormons five days a week.

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Soggy_Flight_2654@reddit (OP)

What's your job? i thought they were only famers.

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websterhamster@reddit

Latter-day Saints are in every profession that exists. For example, I am an EMT and erstwhile information technology nerd.

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TheRealDudeMitch@reddit

Mennonites are often farmers. I don’t think it’s a common occupation for Mormons at all. Ò

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MrsQute@reddit

Mennonites and Amish are more common in my area of Ohio, for sure. There is a Mormon church and a temple in my general area but I've only know 4 or 5 personally.

Nothing like getting stuck behind a horse and buggy. 😃

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KeysmashKhajiit@reddit

I actually went to the Hill Cumorah pageant in upstate NY one year. Impressive production, but man the Mormons are fast & loose with history.

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Elixabef@reddit

I’m jealous that you went to the Hill Cumorah pageant. I first heard of it a couple of years ago and it sounded absolutely wild, but it was discontinued during COVID and now they don’t do it anymore.

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TheBlazingFire123@reddit

Bro, you realize Mormonism is like the most American centric religion out there, right?

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Mossishellagay@reddit

Mormonism originated in the US and its real epicenter is in Utah. Pennsylvania and New York are full of Mennonites

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KeysmashKhajiit@reddit

Yep, Lancaster County is famous for being full of Mennonites and Amish.

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UnderstandingDry4072@reddit

Also Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. Little sects all over, making the best cheese.

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Meekanado@reddit

Yep. Lots of Mennonites around here in Michigan. I’m descended from a few different lines around the tri-state area.

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LabInner262@reddit

And South Carolina and Georgia. And some Mormons here as well.

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LexiD523@reddit

Mennonites made my bedroom furniture and I love it so much.

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floofienewfie@reddit

Mennonites are also present in the Willamette Valley area of Oregon.

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DonNadie2468@reddit

Basically yes, but "full of" is an exaggeration. I don't know the percentage of Mennonites in Pennsylvania and NY, but I feel quite sure it's way, way lower than, say the percentage of Mormons in Utah.

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Mossishellagay@reddit

I say “full of” in that this is where the highest concentration is. There are many parts of upstate NY and Pennsylvania where Mennonites make up a big part of the population

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DonNadie2468@reddit

Fair enough. Thanks for the reply.

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OmightyOmo@reddit

And Kansas and Oklahoma

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CemeteryDweller7719@reddit

There is a Mennonite church near me. They dress conservatively, but not to a level that you’d really recognize they’re Mennonite. (They are a more progressive church. They dress conservatively but without as much restraint. The women are not required to wear a bonnet.) There is another that is a bit further away from me that is more conservative. They dress similar to Amish. Then about an hour away there’s the Amish. (So people around here will see someone, think they’re Amish, but they’re probably Mennonite. The Amish don’t come out here unless it’s for the hospital or something. Yet people will see someone at Walmart and think they’re Amish. The Amish do go to stores, just usually closer to them. I grew up near an Amish community. The grocery store had a section of the parking lot with hitches for the horses.) In my area, it is more common to run into someone that’s Mennonite than Mormon.

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hail_to_the_beef@reddit

Yes. We have both.

In fact, Mormonism was founded in the US, and Salt Lake City, Utah in the American West is their holy land / Zion.

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websterhamster@reddit

The only holy land for Latter-day Saints (the principle Mormon sect based in Salt Lake City) is the same as for all other Christians: Jerusalem and it's environs in the Middle East.

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TheGreatSwatLake@reddit

I think Zion is in Indiana for Mormon folk. My Mormon theology is a bit rusty though.

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hail_to_the_beef@reddit

Missouri. I updated my comment.

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Ok_Orchid1004@reddit

Mormons and mennonites are two completely different religious groups. Mennonites are sort of like Amish, but not as extreme in their beliefs. For example most mennonites will have electricity in their house and drive cars, where Amish would not. The biggest population of Mormons is in the State of Utah. They pretty much founded the state and still represent about half the population there, and their religion influences many of the conservative laws.

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WritPositWrit@reddit

Yes to Mennonites & Amish in NY state. They sell their wares in our Farmers Markets (they have a guy drive the truck for them) and its not unusual to see horse drawn buggies on the roads in the Finger Lakes region

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life_experienced@reddit

The Mormons own a whole state here, Utah. I'm blown away by the number of people commenting they have never met a Mormon. There are so many Mormons in the West.

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TillikumWasFramed@reddit

Yeah they even have reality shows about both groups. Googling might be a better idea than posting a question to Reddit in some cases.

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Dustteas@reddit

Yes, there are a lot of Mormons where I live.

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firerosearien@reddit

I live in a very Mennonite part of PA, horses and buggies are common sites on Sundays.

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h0lych4in@reddit

My family friends are Mennonite, they practice modesty and stuff like that. They don’t have tv but they have smartphones. Mormons are way less niche because of stuff like Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, The Book of Mormon musical, and the fact that a lot of successful companies are ran by Mormons (I.e. crumbl) and authors as well (Stephanie Meyer, author of twilight

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screenaholic@reddit

Asking if Mormons are in the US is crazy. Mormons is essentially just an attempt at making Christianity centered around the US instead of the Middle East. Frankly, I don't understand why anyone NOT in America would ever become Mormon.

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sageamericanidiot@reddit

There are millions of Mormons are throughout the US, the largest concentration in the Southwest, many in Utah. I believe their liquid assets exceed the Catholic Church.

Mennonites are a smaller community, fewer than half a million and largely located in Pennsylvania, and some southern and Midwest states have notable communities.

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ATLDeepCreeker@reddit

This is a silly question.

2 seconds of a basic Google search would have yielded all the information you would ever need.

Do they teach basic research skills in school?

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KJHagen@reddit

We have a lot of both here in our part of Montana. We like to buy vegetables from the Mennonites at farmers markets.

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mothertuna@reddit

Are Mennonites and Mormons not originated in the US? I know for a fact LDS church is. Idk about Mennonites but having grown up going to their church (I am not one, not PA Dutch or even white lol) methinks they do live in the US.

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HobsHere@reddit

The Mennonites originated in Switzerland.

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Gunzablazin1958@reddit

Grew up Mennonite. Yes we live in the US. Visited Utah on vacation back in 2016. There were Mormons everywhere.

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Relevant_Elevator190@reddit

Umm, I live in Utah, the headquarters of the Mormon Church.

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Pugilist12@reddit

I lived in central PA for awhile and there were always Mennonites around. I mostly saw them at the grocery store. I’ll be honest, I didn’t take any time to try to meet any of them or anything, so I can only say what I observed, which was a little weird but nothing crazy.

The main thing is that all of the women dress the same, with weird, unfashionable, depression-era type house dresses. Very bleh. All the women had to dress like that, but the men seemed to just wear whatever they want. Didn’t love that.

Otherwise they kept to themselves. Seemed to always be driving Minivans. Very active in the local farmers markets and that kind of stuff. Never had a good or bad interaction with them. Just people doing their own thing.

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BracedRhombus@reddit

You have internet. Use it.

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boomer-rage@reddit

There are Mormons where I live in PA, but many more Mennonites and Amish.

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Outrageous-Host-3545@reddit

We have both in my area. Mennonites built my barn and do a lot of work in the area. Confused the hell out of my girlfriend when we saw them in the store.

Mormons were invented about 30 minutes away from my house. Generally good people.

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headshotdoublekill@reddit

Yes, they’re all over upstate New York.

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Shoddy-Secretary-712@reddit

There are 11 houses on my street. 2 are Mormon families. They are also probably 1/4 of the streets population. There are parents, married children, and grandchildren living in the households.

We have several Mennonite (and Amish) families living outside of our small town of less than 1,000 people.

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NiaStormsong@reddit

I live in Western NY and I have seen both here, with a healthy dose of Amish.

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zoppaTheDim@reddit

Lots of Mennonites, they date back to colonial times when Pennsylvania was one of the few refuges for them.

They do a lot of missionary work in Central and South America, which is how a number of measles outbreaks have happened.

And Mormons are US based and US invented. Although many of the ones advocating plural marriage did flee to Mexico, before fleeing back.

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littlemiss198548912@reddit

We have a decent amount of both in the past of Michigan I live in. My grandpa's younger brother converted to the Mormon Church at some point, and a cousin also converted so he and his wife could marry in the Salt Lake Temple in Utah.

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evaj95@reddit

Yes. My city has a small Mormon population. I went to high school with some Mormons. They were very nice and took school very seriously.

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MammothReputation298@reddit

Anecdotally, seem to be a lot of Mormons in Washington State, Idaho, and Colorado too. Whereas they are way less common on the east coast, for example.

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fakesaucisse@reddit

I'm always surprised by how many Mormons I run into in the Seattle area, which is known to be a pretty non-religious area. I feel like I am a Mormon/ex-Mormon magnet though, like I emit some sort of bat signal that attracts them.

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sluttypidge@reddit

Mennonites are responsible for the Measles outbreak in Texas last year.

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Artificial-Human@reddit

Mormon Christianity was invented in the US. I believe in Pennsylvania. The group then moved to Missouri before relocating outside of the United States in Utah Territory. Utah was finally accepted into the US as a state some years later.

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Uhhh_what555476384@reddit

Mennonites are from PA they're sort of the "mainstream" branch of the Amish.

Mormonism was founded near Rochester, NY.

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littlemiss198548912@reddit

The Mormon Church was founded in New York.

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rolyoh@reddit

I live in Utah. It's heavily Mormon here, as well as in Idaho and parts of Arizona. But they live in every state. Mennonites are primarily in the Midwestern states and Western Pennsylvania.

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Stressed_C@reddit

Mormons yes. Im not sure about Mennonites.

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floofienewfie@reddit

Mennonites are not at all close to Mormons. They are closer to the Amish than other groups. (My SIL is Mennonite.) Some live semi-communally, some don’t. Many farm. Others live what we’d consider normal lives but go to the Mennonite church and maintain strong ties that way.

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ThingFuture9079@reddit

Both are there. Mennonite sometimes get confused for the Amish because of the way they dress but they are there.

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MGaCici@reddit

Salt Lake City, Utah. Oh, and every where else. The Mormon church is extremely wealthy. Right up there with the Vatican. Mennonites? A smaller group. I visited a group in Tennessee once. Nice pottery goods.

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theniwokesoftly@reddit

lol Mormonism started in the US.

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TrekFan1701@reddit

The Amish and Mennonites are quite populas here in PA. I'm sure there's plenty of Mormons as well. They have a large temple down in Maryland

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pill_oh@reddit

Yes mormons especially in Utah mennonites especially where i live in Pennsylvania and the Amish.

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doublerainbow2020@reddit

We have both in Alabama.

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SilvermistInc@reddit

... You serious?

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Mobius3through7@reddit

Yeah we have quite a few menonites here in Wyoming. A lot of pole barn construction companies are owned by them.

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CycadelicSparkles@reddit

Grew up in Pennsylvania, knew a bunch of Mennonites. Most were farmers. They're not as strict as the Amish (they drive cars and use modern technology), and have varying degrees of conservative dress/abstaining from various activities.

Didn't know many Mormons, but yeah, the Mormon religion began in New York (the state, not the city).

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Vanilla_thundr@reddit

Mormonism was founded in the US. and there's a whole state that they effectively control--Utah.

Here in middle TN I see Mennonites all the time. I think there's a small community nearby. But there are small Mennonite communities all over rural areas of the US.

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cans-of-swine@reddit

There is a fairly large community of Mennonites in middle TN. Ive been there years ago and don't remember exactly where it was. We have quite a few in east tn also.

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tomveiltomveil@reddit

Wow, I'd forgotten that there are huge parts of America where you don't see Amish/Mennonites often. They love to vacation in Washington DC.

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HermioneMarch@reddit

We have both throughout the US though Utah has a high concentration of Mormons as thats where they are “from” mostly. Mennonites vary as to how strict they are so sometimes they live just like everyone else but some have more secluded communities.

Maybe ask a Mormon or Mennonite sub for more details. ( They aren’t alike though just do you know. Completely different branches of the Christianity tree)

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lithomangcc@reddit

Utah - Mormon central - Most common religion there

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Uhhh_what555476384@reddit

Mennonites are common in Pennsylvania. Mormonism is one of the two big religions founded in the US the capital of Mormonism is Salt Lake City, UT.

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pgcotype@reddit

Both religions live in the US. Mennonite chuhes, in my experience, can be found on many places the Amish live (Pennsylvania and Ohio spring to mind).

The Mormon Temple is an impressive sight; it's located in Maryland. You'll find the highest concentration of Mormons in Utah and its neighboring states.

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floofienewfie@reddit

There are Mormon temples in many cities and communities across the US and around the world.

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Vulpix_lover@reddit

Probably yeah, there are definitely Mormons. A lot of Mormons in the Mid-West.

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sparrow_42@reddit

Utah is the Midwest? There are a lot of mennonites, but not Mormons.

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Alarming-While8028@reddit

i know you're being facetious but there are a lot of americans who think utah/colorado area is the midwest. the logic is middle of the country + west. obviously they are incorrect but it's a fairly common misconception

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RingGiver@reddit

Mormons are mainly an American thing.

Mennonites are around, but they tend not to be as strict as they are in some places. The stricter Anabaptists tend to be Amish. There are some Mennonites like that, but not as many as some places in Canada and Bolivia and some other places.

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GinoValenti@reddit

Illinois has pockets of Mennonites, especially in the middle section. A lot of them specialized in growing popping corn and broom corn.

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swallowedbydejection@reddit

Bro, obviously

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craik98@reddit

Mormonism originated in the United States and make up a plurality of the state of Utah's population.

As for Mennonites, they're commonly found in the Northern US, particularly in places like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

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JohnaldL@reddit

Mormonism is a US based religion why wouldn’t we have them?

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whatafuckinusername@reddit

Don’t wanna be mean but this is a bit of a silly question. Salt Lake City in Utah is literally the center of the Mormon world.

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Ill_Apple2327@reddit

the US invented Mormonism and Utah has a massive population of them

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shammy_dammy@reddit

Of course. Joseph Smith and Brigham Young were both born in the US. The LDS church's beginnings are all based in what is now the US. Ohio, Missouri, what is now Utah. The US has the most Mormons of any country. As for the Mennonites, they did not start in the US, but again, the US has the largest number of Mennonites of any country.

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benkatejackwin@reddit

The central premise of Mormonism is that Jesus came to America or something. So yes, Mormonism is a specifically American religion, although it has obviously spread, particularly through their practice of sending young members on missions around the world with the specific purpose of converting people.

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Adamon24@reddit

Yeah, there are a decent amount of Mennonite and Amish communities in certain areas

In terms of Mormons, that kind of an odd question since the religion was founded in the US and is based out of Utah. So yes, there are plenty of Mormons here

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DonNadie2468@reddit

Perfect, succinct answer.

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imk@reddit

Lots of Mennonites in Virginia near the Blue Ridge mountains. They never sell their land apparently, which makes for some funny scenes. You’ll see a Wal-mart with a big parking lot right next to a bunch of cows.

People would ask “what about the smell?” To which I would reply “the cows don’t seem to mind”

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CupBeEmpty@reddit

Mennonites and Mormons are wildly different theologically and pretty different culturally.

We have both.

Utah is the center of Mormonism. Mennonites are mostly scattered across the upper eastern Midwest and more east in PA and upstate NY.

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tranquilrage73@reddit

A hell of a lot of them.

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patentductuspenosis@reddit

Mormonism as a religion began in the United States, and the state of Utah probably has the highest density of Mormons in the planet, with practically entire towns being Mormon. There’s not as many purely Mormon communities outside Utah, but I bet you could find some if you looked. Mennonites are also definitely a thing, though not nearly as many and I’ve never met any of them. I know they are mostly an east coast thing and are similar to the Amish in some regards.

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deathbychips2@reddit

Yes both are in the US. Pretty sure both started in the US, Mormonism definitely started in the US.

There are 7 million Mormons in the US. Utah is essentially just Mormons.

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donuttrackme@reddit

Mormons originated in the US.

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TeamTurnus@reddit

Utah about half Mormon iirc so theres definitely significant populations in the usa, a lot in the Midwest as well but i believe Utah is the biggest concentration given its history.

Theres Mennonite communities throughout the northeast as well.

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