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No one ever considers Delaware because of it's size...but I would say it's close to 40/50 and growing every minute of every day. North Carolina is growing at an enormous rate.
New Mexico is not more "Spanish " nor older than Mexico....silly people.
New Mexico was just the backwaters of the Spanish Empire then called Nueva Espana with its capital and Viceroy in Mexico City ( and included the Phillipines, Central America, the old Lousiana Purchase and the State of Florida).
There a many, many stone, well laidout cities and towns with deeper Spanish roots within Mexico that Santa Fe will ever be.... anyone of them will blow it out of the water (or high desert). (google: Guanajuato, Puebla or Zacatecas for starters)
Most of the Spanish colonizers of early Northern New Mexico where in fact christianized Indians from the State of Tlaxcala. No white Spaniards in prancing horses. There was never any gold or silver in New Mexico to attract the greedy Spaniards in great numbers.
To answer the question I would think Cali or Texas.
A state people been sleeping on is Illinois. Illinois actually has the 4th largest Mexican population, more than New Mexico. There are over 1.5 million(12%) Mexicans in this state. Pilsen/Little Village, Chicago is said to make up the largest Mexican community outside of East. LA.
My question to you is, why do you no longer announce the fact that you're from France? Is there a reason you don't want anyone to know this? (Judging by some of your threads, you certainly do seem to have an obsession with what goes on on this side of the Atlantic!)
funny how the five people from New Mexico who commented on this thread all say Texas and not New Mexico, but the people who live out of state say New Mexico.
people must have not read my post on the previos page, I dont think people realize that most people in New Mexico are of Spanish decent and not Mexican.
You have obviously never set foot in Spain. (I lived there many years and married one).
Albuquerque has more in common with Mexican northern cities like Chihuahua or Saltillo than it has with Barcelona or Sevilla.
Travel and know your history dude.
I dont think that Bradley meant you were going to find a culture like Spain here in the SW, you arnt going to find Barcelona or Madrid in the middle of the desert or 6,000 ft in the mountains, but the point is, most Hispanics are Spanish here in NM, to an outsiders perspective, it probably does resemble Mexico, but then again, outsiders seem to think they know it all about every state they pay a visit to, but other than Southern NM, the rest of NM does not remind me of Mexico at all.
btw, I have lived in New Mexico my whole life in different parts of the state, I just recently moved though, I will say South TX feels alot more like Mexico than NM does.
I dont think that Bradley meant you were going to find a culture like Spain here in the SW, you arnt going to find Barcelona or Madrid in the middle of the desert or 6,000 ft in the mountains, but the point is, most Hispanics are Spanish here in NM, to an outsiders perspective, it probably does resemble Mexico, but then again, outsiders seem to think they know it all about every state they pay a visit to, but other than Southern NM, the rest of NM does not remind me of Mexico at all.
btw, I have lived in New Mexico my whole life in different parts of the state, I just recently moved though, I will say South TX feels alot more like Mexico than NM does.
But Texas overall is much more diverse and multi-cultured than NM. Mexicans have little impact or influence on East Texas. On top of that; Texas has a much more diverse Latino population than NM.
The fact of the matter is, is that New Mexico, until recently, has not had a significant influx of Mexicans (at least not northern NM).
You get a MUCH different vibe in the Mexican enclaves of cities in California or Texas than you do in Albuquerque or Santa Fe or any of the Rio communities or the mountain towns.
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