I believe the Mormons ran into trouble everywhere they went prior to their decamping for Utah Because of their exclusionary economic system. I lived in Tremonton Utah (90 % Mormon) in the 60s as a protestant teenager and attended Mormon seminary in the 9th grade. There is no way the golden plates, their beliefs, or prophecy can stand up to even mild scrutiny. They are hard working industrious folks not unlike a nest of fire ants. It may be different now but a non-Mormon opening a business in Utah would have been boycotted except for the few who wouldn't pay their bills, and came requesting credit. In their Illinois problem back in the 1840s I believe taking over part of the state and plotting assassinations put them in bad odor. Where I live now the few we have seem pretty decent but they don't hold political sway and can't have their way in court against non-Mormons.
