About St. George

The hub of southern Utah and Utah's Dixie (a nickname given to the area when Mormon pioneers grew cotton in the warm climate), St. George is the seventh-largest city in Utah and the most populous city in the state outside of the Wasatch Front. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, it had the distinction in the late 2000s of having the fastest white population growth in the nation. It has been observed that the conservative social culture of the region shows, on the one hand, friction between "business-driven conservatives" and "anti-illegal immigration social conservatives," and on the other, some tensions between Mormons (by far a majority of the population) and non-Mormons