Yeah, Mormons are really a group of people and not a "task group" per se. Actually, the inspiration for Dogs in the Vineyard came from a small group of Mormons who protected the fledging Utah colony (mainly by killing every non-Mormon who stumbled across them, but that's not an unusual pattern for Americans).
In the same vein, 49-ers, Dust-bowlers, migrant workers, etc. would all be a group, but there it gets a bit too diffuse. You can't point to any one 49-er, you just get generalized stories about them.
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Date: 2006-03-17 03:49 pm (UTC)Yeah, Mormons are really a group of people and not a "task group" per se. Actually, the inspiration for Dogs in the Vineyard came from a small group of Mormons who protected the fledging Utah colony (mainly by killing every non-Mormon who stumbled across them, but that's not an unusual pattern for Americans).
In the same vein, 49-ers, Dust-bowlers, migrant workers, etc. would all be a group, but there it gets a bit too diffuse. You can't point to any one 49-er, you just get generalized stories about them.
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Tom