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by sbrother 2163 days ago
SLC is a great deal more diverse than it was 10 years ago. As an anecdote I moved here four years ago and I've overheard conversations in more and more different languages as I walk around the downtown area. My circle of friends is probably more diverse than it was when I lived in LA since it's largely people who moved here for the University of Utah or SLC-based tech jobs. Also, I believe SLC is at least 30% Hispanic, but it's pretty segregated both geographically and culturally.

The rest of Utah is lily white though, and the tech scene (its centroid is somewhere between SLC and Provo) still feels heavily white and Mormon. I didn't used to mind as much because we would travel to CA once a month, but with the COVID travel moratorium I'm really missing diversity of all kinds.