OUT THROUGH THE BACK DOOR OF ROSA'S I RAN
OUT WHERE THE HORSES WERE TIED
I CAUGHT A GOOD ONE, IT LOOKED LIKE IT COULD RUN
UP ON ITS BACK AND AWAY I DID RIDE
JUST AS FAST AS I COULD FROM THE WEST TEXAS TOWN OF EL PASO
OUT TO THE BADLANDS OF NEW MEXICO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWm5WErkffQ

>>212661395 (OP)
New Mexico isnt a country dumbass

Mexicans: How do you feel about New Mexico as a cultural space? Is it sort of like Chiapas... that "Other" part of Mexico

Americans: How do you feel about New Mexico as the most culturally distinct state? How do you feel about the culture, pinon coffee, chiles, puebloans, navajos, hispanos, hippies, and more

New Mexicans: Do you take pride in being such a unique ethno-lingusitic cultural space on the North American continent?

>>212661507
Based pole bro, you would love New Mexico (and El Paso) come visit someday. I met some Polish gallery owners in Santa Fe on Canyon Rd.

hermanos what did he mean by this?

>>212662053
Texas wants to build a wall between NM and Texas. Abbot has floated it many times lol but nobody in East Texas wants it obviously it's just a retarded play to your texas triangle retard base move

>>212661395 (OP)
New mexico patriot retvrns

>>212661531
>most culturally distinct state
I definitely think it's in the running with the unique populations converging in one area with an interesting history connected to the Spanish and the Camino Real. I had Pinon cola, was excellent. Posole is god tier. Sopapilla is alright. Hatch green chiles are also delicious. When I first started writing this I was going to try and give a counter-example state to be contrarian, but I think you're right. It really is one of a kind. I'm from AZ and New Mexico is one of my favorite states. It's up there with Montana and California.

>>212662673
VGH ship rock... Dine land... respect the forefathers!

And yeah it really is the most distinct state. Because it's so distinct even from the rest of the SW and East Texas. The rest of the SW was mostly settled by anglo settlers without much if any spanish precense. But NM already had a pretty big Hispano community and the % of the population that's native has remained steady since statehood unlike the Dakotas, Montana, AZ and other big native states (only alaska shares with NM in this feat).

You could argue Hawaii or Alaska but 100% NM is the most distinct state in the 48. That's not to say there's not a lot of interesting cultural zones in the US but they usually don't neatly follow state borders

>>212661531
It kind of reminds me of Appalachia but like if the base culture in the blend had been Hispanic instead of Anglo/Scottish.

>>212661531
New Mexico is to Breaking Bad/Better Caul Saul as Squid Game is to Korea

I like learning about the Spanish missions across the southerly states of the US

>>212663012
This...

>>212663547
Yeah, they don't get as much love as they should. I visited San Xavier del Bac mission just south of Tucson recently, very well maintained, interior is even nicer than the outside.

>>212663547
Coolest pueblo mission in my view is Acoma Pueblo because the interior is awesome and during the Pueblo revolt they didn't destroy it like most pueblos did (even though they went back to their old faith). They don't use it as an active church but they do rituals in there a few times a year and on easter they invite a pastor to do a sermon and they walk miles and miles up the mesa to the church and do half sermon half native ritual they seem to be the least responsive to Christianity of any Pueblo which is ironic because they are the only one I think who didn't have their original mission church destroyed in their revolt.

I really like the one in Isleta Pueblo too. No photos allowed even of the exterior (if you're not a native) but it's not visited by outsiders for that reason and the town it's in is ancient in a part of the rez nobody reallt goes to because it's not by the casinos or Rv parking.

Pic related is Chimayo which is still a big pilgramge site for Hispanos and puebloans. It was a puebloan holy site because of the magic dirt. The spanish built a church there and people still come from all over, sometimes on foot, to use the magic dirt. It's a whole mission complex with hispano culture it's great. It's in a part of NM between Taos and SF where all the little towns are old land grants by the Spanish crown and feel left in time.

>>212661395 (OP)
what if they make another mexico what would they call that one?

>>212663814
New New Mexico

>>212663756
Very beautiful! I really love the variety of mission churches all over the SW and California. Pic related is very simple but it's the oldest Church in the USA (granted it had to get rebuilt after the Pueblo revolt)

>>212663953
Whoops forgot pic