I am sure, the ProPublica owners, being an accessory after the fact, can be easily compelled to reveal the sources under the threat of some jail time, right?

New Mexico is a complicated place. Despite being born here and my heritage I’ve never really fit in.

My grandfather was an Irish orphan, likely illegitimate, who as a baby was sent to a NYC orphanage with just his name. He served in WW I, roamed America until he settled down in Santa Fe, became a postman and married a woman from Chihuahua.

I found a newspaper account of their wedding in the Santa Fe Cathedral. The interracial aspect was something of a big deal and was covered in the papers.

So my father was a half-breed, a coyote. He had a tough enough time that he chose not to teach me Spanish, his first language. I’ve never made things work with my NM relatives.

NM is not a happy melting pot story. It’s a poor state with too many drugs, too many tensions.

But yeah, they really don’t like Texans!

In New Mexico there are the Native Americans, the old Spanish Americans, the Anglos, the Mexican Americans, and of course the illegal Hispanics. But the Texans, they really got disrespected!

At least that’s my recollection from the late ’90s working in ABQ, which I really liked.

Huxley would be an authority on the curiosities of New Mexico?

Could be they meant the family came from Spain and got into CO without putting down roots in Mexico, kind of a technicality if it took a couple of generations,

Four lean years, four UNLIMITED fat ones…

(This would be true for every blue state, not just California…)

E.g.,

https://instapundit.com/773643/

At least in NYC (where I grew up) anybody that spoke Spanish was identified as “Spanish,” regardless if they were from Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Honduras, Spain, etc.
This sort of identification ( I don’t think) does not apply to non-Spanish speaking folks.
Don’t know how or why this sort of identification applies only to Spanish speakers.(at least in NYC).

I did learn (from my Cuban and Argentinian acquaintances) that they found it really insulting if they were identified as Puerto Ricans.

It’s hemorrhaging people, companies, jobs, and wealth–their tax base–while, at the same, time spending insane amounts of money on all sorts of projects.

To take just one glaring and prominent example, their high speed rail project, which was supposed to link all of California’s major cities.

Started in 2012, ground breaking in 2015, and at an estimated cost of $33 Billion with a ten year completion date for the first 494 mile section, this first section now projected to be completed somewhere around 2030 or later, to be followed by the second 776 mile section.

However, it’s not clear if even one station along this first phase had been completed and is operational, while the cost so far has skyrocketed, to an astronomical $128 billion dollars, and President Trump has said that there will be no more Federal funding towards this project.

But, wait, there’s more!

Here is what appears to be even more insane government spending in California, on a gigantic, very expensive home health care system employing hundreds of thousands of people–usually relatives–to perform their relatives care.*

* See https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/article_875f12ea-0e73-4b96-9b3b-da4f14f4ec20.html