Talk:Mormon Republic of Deseret (The Many Nations of North America)

I have made a few changes on this page, some as minor as correcting spelling (Deserat to Deseret). I have also noted that while most outsiders would tend to call Deseret "the Mormon Republic of Deseret," the actual name would indeed be "the Republic of Deseret," since before the territory was called Utah by the US Congress, it was called "the Provisional State of Deseret" by its inhabitants, not "the Mormon State of Deseret."

I also altered slightly the description of the government to mirror what the church did do when Utah was the Provisional State. It had a president appointed by the Prophet and "sustained" in a yes/no vote by the male citizenry. I also had several counties in Colorado and Wyoming, who have high concentrations of Mormon populace, join with the Republic for protection from the warlords left over from the RMC. The Populace of Eastern Idaho would have resisted Pacifican forces and there would have been a bloody revolt under Pacifican occupation. The same is true with Northern Nevada, though Clark County, where Vegas lies, would side with California.

These are just details that anyone familiar with the Provisional State of Deseret or with Mormon history would insist be put into place if the Mormon Church survived into this alternate history.

Separation of Church and State, and the discontinuance of polygamy were both requirements for Utah to join the Union. It is probable both practices would have continued to modern day as described in this history without the Utah war which the US government fought after the successful conclusion of the Civil War.