OREM, Utah — Mormons are successfully assimilating into the larger American culture, according to G. Wesley Johnson.

Johnson, an emeritus professor of business history at BYU, and his wife, Marian, are co-directors of the Outmigration Project, which gathered more than 600 interviews with Mormons living across the country. He spoke on Nov. 5 at the 10th annual Mormon Studies Conference at Utah Valley University. The conference theme this year was "Outmigration and the Mormon Quest for Education."

After 1900, according to Johnson, young Mormons began to leave the Mormon corridor in the West to seek better jobs and higher education in a variety of larger American cities. They joined other Americans who were searching for a better way of life.

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