The Putinists have convinced me, Mexico can have legitimate claim to Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico.

[Warpy]

12. And that was the most sensible part of the post!

I live in NM and am very aware of it's history, especially the way the Tiguex tribes kicked the Spanish out completely for 18 years and didn't let them come back until they promised to behave themselves and act like a buffer between them and other tribes. They're the only native people who managed to kick Europeans out for any real length of time. Now I know them along with Hispanics as neighbors, coworkers and friends. Any intercultural friction here is like the green chile that gets put into everything, a little heat that makes it all interesting.

Annexing to Mexico would be problematic for a number of reasons but it could be sold here as a way to access the IMSS, the Mexican single payer system.

And since it's a mountainous state with a low population and one of the poorest states in the country, I doubt the Feds would bother much once they'd moved all the incriminating evidence out of Los Alamos and Sandia Labs.