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Because Mexico.

There's a small town in Northern New Mexico called Chama. It's north of Tierra Amarilla* where there was a land revolt back in 1967. It's mainly a tourist town (but not like Durango, CO) with a heritage railroad, fishing, camping, etc. in the summer, hunting in the fall and winter cross-country skiing and snowmobiling. There are signs all over the place for Steve Pearce (R) for governor.

The rail yards (extending about 1/2 mile long alongside the main street) are not fenced; anyone can walk anywhere on the property at any time and see dozens of restored (and un-restored) freight and passenger cars and old buildings. Yet there is not a trace of graffiti anywhere and vandalism is rare. Only deer and the occasional elk are seen in the yard at night. Many of the locals speak Spanish among themselves but converse in English with the tourists. These are mostly poor people but they have a deep-rooted sense of pride in their heritage and don't take newer, mostly illegal, immigrants from Mexico lightly. Newcomers with crime on their minds don't linger long in the town as the locals take care of any problem themselves.

*The Alianza Federal de Mercedes, led by Reies Tijerina, raided the Rio Arriba County Courthouse in 1967. Attempting to make a citizen's arrest of the district attorney "to bring attention to the unscrupulous means by which government and Anglo settlers had usurped Hispanic land grant properties", an armed struggle in the courthouse ensued resulting in Tijerina and his group fleeing to the south with two prisoners as hostages. Eulogio Salazar, a prison guard, was shot and Daniel Rivera, a sheriff's deputy, was badly injured. The National Guard, FBI and New Mexico State Police successfully pursued Tijerina, who was sentenced to less than three years. A very faded sign on the highway still has the words "Land or Death" in Spanish.