re: #196 HappyWarrior

Hold on there maestro, there’s a New Mexico?

While I was born and raised in Virginia, I’ve lived the last 14 and a half years a little south of Albuquerque, after nine years of hell in Beckley, West Virginia. My wife grew up in Irving, Texas, between Dallas and Fort Worth, and her mother’s side of the family grew up and reside in New Mexico.

For some reason, my grandmother could not wrap her head around the concept that New Mexico’s a state in this union or that it was admitted to statehood three years before she was born. She kept thinking that my mother-in-law was a Mexican national, despite her family’s Germanic surname.