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>>15238777
Yes. But it's very far downstream of decisions made for (petty) political purposes in the late 1960s/early 1970s. Most NASA proposals favored LRBs, but those had higher upfront development costs and NASA was under severe pressure to minimize peak development costs (at the expense of performance and operational costs), leading to the decision to use SRBs.
Given that everything else was in the South, it would've made more sense to locate SRB production along the coasts, or at least a navigable river, but politics said "Let there be Utah" and so there was Utah.