@crazylikeafox Said 
Indeed. It's a rough guess, but I'd say about half the Hispanics I've met were Mexican. It's the country with the most immigrants, but hardly the only one. And I think you're right, they are partly why we're purple states.
Yeah, we have northern New Mexico, where there are a lot of Hispanics, but it is old families from the settlement of New Spain. So I guess technically NM was a territory of Mexico after independence for like 25yrs, many don't self-identify as Mexican. But as New Mexican. The southern part of the state is more of a mix of the Mexican and New Mexican. Not that immigrants don't settle in the north, the north is just more isolated, from everything really. Hispanics here still tend to be very Catholic, maybe not practicing but at least familiar in being raised that way.
Sometimes I think southern Colorado is a lot like northern New Mexico. Colorado also has a mix of the rural and the urban areas. That matters a lot more than race too. And Hispanic/Latino is such a mix that even in statistics it is hard to pin down, it's all about how people self-identify culture or based of their last name. It is not the same sense of "otherness" that create ethnic racial issues in the rest of the county. Not saying otherness/race are not issues, just that they are different and harder to get a picture of statistically. Both parties have appealing issues so it becomes a matter of each voter deciding what is more important. And why we have deal with tons and tons of negative ads on why the other guy sucks more.
Our green chile is still better, though!
Nov 11, 2014 @ 15:37:18
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