When you peel back the layers of NM history, you just keep finding more layers.
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Carlos Santana said it was not true but about 14 years ago there was a buzz about him having a New World crypto-Jewish background
Travis, I drove through Mountainair, NM once while camping. It was beautiful.
You referenced the area in your above novel, wherein radical racial Marxists were throwing the white people out of their homes in favor of Mexicans.
It drove home the idea that idyllic and peaceful places can quickly become unsafe. I used it as a lesson plan for my wife.