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Edited on Mon Oct-25-04 09:51 AM by nownow
I don't live in NM now, but did back in the '80s and have family out there now. A lot of people from the Midwest who retired and considered Florida rejected it for various reasons -- most of them having to do with population density, traffic and overdevelopment. Part of the skew to the right by Midwestern states like Ohio, Kentucky and Missouri can probably be attributed to the weakening of the labor unions -- union retirees likely continue to vote for Democrats -- and the escape of retired union members to states like NM. They have to go somewhere, and they usually vote.
Second, there are lots of old time 'wobblies' who headed out there because it's beautiful and still relatively clean, reasonably inexpensive to live there, and people leave you the hell alone if you want to be left alone.
Third? Santa Fe. Lots of well-to-do progressives in Santa Fe; many visual artists love it because the light is so unique -- it's great for photography, painting, anything that involves the visual arts.
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