Yeah, my Dad still lives there, and my Aunt used to be a state Rep for a conservative area, but it’s a liberal state. Hope to see things change tho.
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It’s happening Brytlea. Slowly, but we’re getting there. I’ve lived here 8 years this month and have seen it changing. I think folks feel utterly raped and pillaged by Richardson and some of the ostriches are finally pulling their heads out of the sand and looking around.
Thank goodness!
I remember my mother complaining way back that people from CA were moving in and bringing their stupid liberal ideas (they ruined CA and they had a lot of money from selling their over priced houses and could pay too much for homes and land in NM and they wanted to remake NM into what they were trying to get away from in CA). Gosh, that was 35 or so years ago. She was apparently psychic.
But, we want to retire in NM (my Mom’s family came there in the late 1800s, Dexter/Roswell area, in fact, my Granny’s house was the first house in Dexter). I don’t like the turn it has taken, so I do hope things are changing for the better. It’s truly an enchanting place and my heart and roots are there.
I sure hope things will change, but not to toss out ice water, the dems still do the vote counting, and there is always the possibility/probability of enough "lost" ballots showing up to swing things their way.