My brother sent me a link to a guide separating reality from myth regarding Utah.

Utah is number one in Jello consumption, anti-depressant use (both twice the national average), piano ownership, (five times the national average), birth rate, personal bankruptcies, literacy, computers per capita and household size.

Utah is dead last in families headed by a single parent, births to unwed mothers, spending per student in public schools and alcohol consumption per capita.

Perhaps the low alcohol consumption is the cause of the high anti-depressant use. The high literacy level and low spending on students was surprising, but it’s hard to make any conclusions from such generic data.

Also, Brigham Young never said single men over the age of 25 were a menace to society. He said he wanted every man in the land older than 18 to take a wife. The closest thing they found to the aforementioned quote is Elder George Q. Cannon, an LDS Church apostle, who said, “I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is a dangerous element in any community.”