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> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "blpurdom" <blpurdom at y...> wrote:
> > At least they knew that NY and Oregon are both in the US.  There 
are people in the US who do not know that New Mexico is a US state.  
> > Evidently there are some who think it is another country which 
broke away from Mexico.  



As a native New Mexican I get soooo tired of this. Sometimes when 
visting other states being told you speak really good english, you 
don't even have a spanish accent. I never even learned spanish until 
I was in high school and I don't speak it that well even now. 

Oh and I also love this one "did you have to get a visa?" No but I 
have a mastercard. OR Do you have cars there and paved roads?  
Running water?  Do you you still have to ride horses? 

I'd like to know what they teach these people in school. Granted New 
Mexico doesn't have the best educational system in the country but we 
at least know all the states.



>--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "joanne0012" <Joanne0012 at a...> wrote:
 
> Well, in a way they're partly right, since it used to be part of 
Mexico, LOL!  I think 
> those are the same people who wonder if they need a passport to go 
to Hawaii.


And just a little history note, New Mexico was not the only state to 
belong to Mexico in the early to mid 1800's. 

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848, ended 
the war with Mexico. It confirmed U.S. claims to Texas and set its 
boundary at the Rio Grande.  Mexico also agreed to cede to the United 
States, California and New Mexico. This included what is now 
California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah as well as parts of New Mexico, 
Colorado and Wyoming. The purchase price was $15 million and 
assumption by the United States of claims against Mexico by U. S. 
citizens. The U. S. Senate ratified it on March 10, 1848 and the 
Mexican Congress on May 25. 

The New Mexico Territory 1850 - New Mexico (which included present-
day Arizona, southern Colorado, southern Utah and southern Nevada) is 
designated a territory, but denied statehood. In 1863 the territory 
is split in half creating the Arizona territory. By 1912 what is 
present day New Mexico becomes the 47th state in the Union.


Cheers,
Kristin

:who will now step off her New Mexico is a state soapbox: