[kcorbitt]

For what it's worth, I went to the July 4 Stop the NSA rally at the Utah data center two years ago when I was living there. It drew quite a large crowd and felt to me like a large cross-section of the population from a number of different political and social groups.

I don't think there's anything strange about a predominantly Republican state being worried about what "big brother" is up to in their own back yard. Especially Utah, which still has an unusually fresh memory of real repression at the hands of the federal government related to its history with Mormonism[1] and polygamy[2]. It probably also helps that the Democratic Obama administration has caused a lot of Republican voters in Utah to dislike the federal government even further.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_War [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latter_Day_Saint_polygamy_in_th...