Latter-day Saints: Happy in their family lives, traditional in gender roles

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About half of Latter-day Saints (48%) say most people can be trusted, compared with 34% of U.S. adults overall.

Latter-day Saints are more likely than many other Americans to rate their family lives highly and to marry someone of the same religion.

Three-quarters of Latter-day Saint Republicans say racial and ethnic diversity strengthens the country, compared with six-in-ten Republicans overall.

Latter-day Saints in the US are highly religious, though not uniformly so Excerpt: Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints living in the Mountain region and members who have more education are especially religious.