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New Mexico pulses with a lifeblood of thought. Arizona hums to an air-conditioned plot.

New Mexico has the ruins; lessons revealed. Arizona has FOX News, hermetically-sealed.

New Mexico has chile ristras, adobe walls. Arizona has black Hummers and strip malls.

New Mexico has a conscience, though perhaps not entirely. Arizona still parrots Bill O'Reilly.

New Mexico has bumper-sticker perspective. Arizona still wallows in partisan invective....

like, "Our WMD-2000, Iraq-0", on the table, versus "Work hard, annoy a liberal", or some other label.

Now both might be true, check the depth of the lather. But one makes a point, the other, more blather.

Check a state's pulse by the radicals it espouses, though satellite dishes skew the percentage of houses.

Do the math, complete with standard deviation. I'm sure you'll compute the sum of my observation....





(with apologies to Bisbee)....

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This is funny Mnaz, not to mention good.

My mom winters in Arizona...one of those snowbirds you know...anyway, she'd heartily agree with you here....she told me arizona is really awful politically, but her arthritis likes the weather. She also makes sure to tell everyone she's from Washington State.....and likes the color blue......maybe she oughta try new mexico.....

Enjoyed yere post again!

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heh. Pretty clever and pretty much true but you know how I feel about the Land of Enchantment despite the fences.

Smacks.

Lots more old folks in Arizona ... that could explain it.

Northern New Mexico is terrific ... Santa Fe and so on ... not sure what I think of the whole state, though.

Hi Cat...where in the state have you been? The Sacramento Mountains? The Gila? White Oaks? Silver City? Capitan? (home of Smokey Bear) Carlsbad? Lincoln? Mesilla? For me, there are plenty of places to love in New Mexico including the southern bits.

That's it, Soozen ... I haven't seen many places in New Mexico. None of the above. I know I should explore more of it.

Typically, people move to New Mexico for the richly diverse beauty and culture of the state itself, whereas people move to Arizona strictly for the sunshine and mild winters.... And people in Arizona are particularly fond of hauling giant speedboats and other expensive toys hundreds of miles to the nearest dam reservoir....

But then, there I go generalizing again....