Shocker.
Thank you for making the connection. More prosperity, business ownership, less poverty all around benefits everyone.
I’m from New Mexico. Grew up next to and married into, the Mescalero Apache tribe. Wife’s a Medical doctor.
Excepting the Zuni and Navajo reservations, race has never been a major problem here. Or Hispanic or no Hispanic. Or Apache or no. I was the QB for the Mescalro football team in high school. (I look like a blue eyed Viking.)
It’s the land of buffalo soldiers, Jesse James, cowboys, oil, prospectors. Comanche raids on Apache. And vice versa. Tough people. Too fricking hard to live to be racist.
As the Californians took over Sante Fe, government spending (1/8 adults work for some government agency) and welfare (1/5 residents) it’s spiraled out of control.
Abject hatred among races. My family has been here long enough that I have a direct ancestor who died in a shootout in Lincoln (James gang). My wife’s family has been here since before recorded history.
We’re thinking of moving a little east to Texas for good. Don’t want our daughters in this mess.
Same exact land. Different laws and leaders.