New Mexico
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"There's a New Mexico?!?!?!?!"
- - Homer Simpson
New Mexico is one of several states in the southwestern United States that are in territory that was taken from Mexico after the US won a war [1], which Mexico started in response to the US's annexation of the Republic of Texas. Smaller parts of New Mexico were purchased from Mexico later, when the US really wanted the land for one reason or another.[2]
[edit] Warning to fundamentalist Christians
Since New Mexico claims to be "The Land of Enchantment", you are advised to stay away, far away, from this obvious den of Satanism and baby's blood drinking rituals. Also, New Mexico is pretty much full of a bunch of Mexicans, who insist that they're American citizens even though they speak Spanish.
[edit] Notable New Mexican stuff
- New Mexico is a haven for lady homosexuals, who use earth-toned native ceramicware to decorate their adobe cottages.
- Roswell.
- Bill Richardson
- More nukes than anybody else. They're old and not all that great, but we've got tons of the things.
- New Mexicans tend to hate Texans. Nobody is quite sure why.
- The New Mexican state question is "red or green?" (it's about chile) and the state answer is "Both." Many New Mexicans are sick to death of hearing this.
- The New Mexico state fossil is the Celeophysis and the state insect is the Tarantula Hawk wasp. However, neither of these gets anywhere near as much play as the damned "red or green?" thing.
- Although many New Mexicans speak Spanish, enough of them do not that it's better not to make any assumptions, as any non-Spanish speaker tends to get peeved if you ask him to translate something for you.
- Despite being a desert, New Mexico features many fine ski resorts.
- New Mexico is home to Sandia National Labs and Los Alamos National Labs.
- New Mexico also features the crystal-worshipping, adobe-loving, reincarnation-believing-in, fossil-selling, New Agey theme park known as Santa Fe.
- Arizona was the better less-Hispanic part of New Mexico that separated to get its own statehood sooner than the rest of New Mexico. They got it because they are full of Spanish-speaking Mexicans.
- There is a small city in New Mexico called Las Vegas, which isn't nearly as interesting as the real City of Sin, and is so unnoteworthy as to not need an article as everything can be said about it here. New Mexicans are the only people in the US that respond to "I went on vacation to Las Vegas" with "in Nevada?"
