User:Smile Lee/Culture of New Mexico
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The culture of New Mexico is a culture within a moderately isolated region, that has been shaped by multiple peoples and groups throughout its history. Each bringing with it its peoples and customs which, over time, blended into the current New Mexican culture. Its people were its' natives Native Americans, Nuevomexicanos, and people of the American frontier; and the several larger groups were the Native American settlements (Clovis, Pueblo, and Athabaskans-Apachean peoples of the Navajo and Apache), the Spanish colony of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, a Mexican territory, and an American territory and State. The state's stable, yet diverse, culture stems its from its position as a trade-route alongside the descendants of longtime natives. This melting pot of Native American, Hispanic, Latino, American, and European culture, blends with other communities of African American, Asian, Middle Eastern peoples; which created the modern New Mexico culture.[1]
Various parts of New Mexico's culture are emphasized in different parts of the state, such as extraterrestrial imagery in Roswell and science/technology around Los Alamos; but those aspects are reflected throughout the state. Politically, northern New Mexico is predominantly Democratic and the southern part of the state is Republican; but, much like the aspects of culture, aspects of both political ideologies are reflected across the state. However, issues in the state are much less divided along partisan lines, and much more divided between rural and city lifestyles; in fact both the city and rural parts of the state are known to swing between the two major American political parties.[2][3]
New Mexican culture is not isolated to only New Mexico, aspects of New Mexican culture can be seen throughout the American Southwest, the American West, and the Mexican states of Coahuila and Chihuahua.