George Q. Cannon notes the lack of interracial marriage in Utah.
George Q. Cannon, "An Ex-Editor's Saturday Talk," Deseret News, March 25, 1893, 14
There is no disputing the fact that there is a greater susceptibility to the truth among some races and families, than there is among others. In old times there was a chosen race. For reasons which space will not permit to be enlarged upon here, that race had greater promises made to it than were given to others. And its members were careful to marry among themselves. . . In Utah we have a good foundation to start on. Our people are not mongrel breeds. We have in our Territory today more New England people and their descendants than can be found in any other community of our number outside of New England itself. . . There are comparatively few of what are known as the inferior races in Utah--a smaller proportion than in any other of the Pacific states and territories, for all told, even if we include civilized Indians, they only number 2006.