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Having read the book, I can tell you that Krakauer is speaking strictly of people that have been excommunicated from (or never even belonged to) the mainstream LSD church. They are the Mormon equivalent of the snake-handling Pentacostals in East TN and Western NC - the rest of the Pentacostals think the snake handlers are nuts. Krakauer spent a fair amount of the book discussing the politics of Colorado City, AZ, which is in the NW corner of AZ and separated from the rest of the state by the Grand Canyon, which effectively cuts it off from easy travel. If I remember right, he said that the population was roughly 30-40,000 with 90% belonging to the Fundamentalist LSD church, which is pretty much catagorically vilified by the mainstream LSD church.
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