Farms/MI firmly disagrees with the Prophet Joseph Smith as to where the Book of Mormon occurred and they all seem to be making a decent living at it as well.
Who has more followers? Meldrum? Probably so.
Meldrum is following his heart by following the Prophet, the original one, Joseph. He bears his testimony of the actual things that Brother Joseph wrote in his own journal which answers many of these questions.
It is easier for the average garden variety member to be a Meldrumite. It all makes sense. There is little if no risk when no archeological evidence is found. Just like the Gold plates, the city of Enoch, etc, God simply removed them from the earth.
Farms is following their mind by trying to make it all work out in their head whilst keeping their backsides in a pew. "Because it is a good way to raise a family". This one is a tough one for the Meldrumites to follow because it contains doubt and relies to heavily on the arm of flesh. They offer nothing when compared to Meldrum.
Mormon members need Meldrumism. It gives them something physical to cling to like the xtians and the perceived physical things of the old world which seem to testify of Christ.
Farms offers nothing but vast libraries of shifting plausible explanations, while Brother Meldrum offers his sincere testimony.
If I was say, like my inlaws, I'd probably be a Meldrumite. Heck even Steve Young is one!
Take a look at Meldrum's website. It is chock full of things like this:
The Hill Cumorah Monument : The monument on the top of the Hill Cumorah in Palmyra, New York, USA. This is the hill where the ancient record inscribed on gold plates is understood to have been buried and where Joseph Smith was directed to receive them for translation. This is also the hill around which the people of two ancient civilizations perished in war.