My mother and her family grew up in Ogden, UT.

UT residents are indeed friendly but very much conservative. Ideologically, unless we’re talking Salt Lake City or Salt Lake County, all else of UT hasn’t really changed that much over the years besides non-white demographics. Even with this, non-white Utahns can still be conservative, even socially.

Urban areas need to explode in population that favors voters who are transplants or it’s going to be hard for UT to move closer to the blue column. You have most of the state that is rural, which adds to the problems as well.