Guess the State: Democrat-Run Fiasco Edition -- Since 1931, no other state has had single-party Dem rule at the state level as long as this one. And it shows.

American Thinker ^ | 01/28/2020 | Charles W. Sullivan

[SeekAndFind]

The last time Republicans held a majority on this state's Supreme Court was in the 1920s.  Its Court of Appeals has never had a Republican majority.

The last time Republicans held a majority in both houses of the state Legislature at the same time was 1930.  In the 89 years from 1931 to the present, Democrats have held a majority of both houses of the state Legislature for 79 of the 89 years.

Since 1931, Democrats have held the governor's office for 69 of the 89 years.  Even when a Republican has been governor, his powers have been greatly limited because he has never held a majority in both houses of the state legislature while in office.

What state am I?

If you guessed CA, IL, NY, NJ, or MA, you're wrong.  If you guessed NM, go to the head of the class (here) (here).  Since 1931, no other state has had single-party Dem rule at the state level as long as New Mexico.  And how has New Mexico fared under the stewardship of single party Democrat rule?  As we shall see, not so well.

EDUCATION: By all accounts, New Mexico has one of the worst, if not the worst, K–12 public education system in the country.  It is a system that spends vast sums of money but has little or no accountability for the students, teachers, administrators, parents, or elected officials.  Here are the sobering stats.  It has recently been rated as the worst state public school system in the country.  Among the country's 11,850 school districts, only one from New Mexico, Los Alamos, is rated in the top 1,000.  A charity named the New Mexico Coalition for Literacy estimates that an astonishing 46% of the adults in the state are functional illiterates.

[Vermont Lt]

You are correct. We are all ignorant of something. I am seeing a lot more ignorant in the world lately. But they just are too lazy to get educated.

[Alberta's Child]

It seems like SanchoP completely misunderstood my point and took it the wrong way. That’s probably my fault. The facts about these various statistical measures don’t lie, but in no way was I intending to make a generalization about every Native American here.