Mormonism has been in the news in Little Rock recently. So the timing is good for an op-ed by a Brigham Young University history teacher on the roots of anti-Mormonism.
A fine story this morning in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette by Charlie Frago (sorry, pay wall) about a four-year-old Mormon child denied admission to the private Little Rock Christian Academy because of his religion.
Do Republican voters in the South have a problem with Mormonism? South Carolina exit polling provides a hint:
Exit polls show that 43 percent of voters who said that the candidates' religious beliefs mattered "a great deal" went for Gingrich.