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Now we know why New Mexico was missing

Brief by Central Staff

Media – May 2004 – Colorado Central Magazine

New Mexico Magazine has a regular feature called “One of our 50 is missing,” and has anecdotes about how many Americans forget that New Mexico is in the United States.

Indeed, we had a friend who, while staying in Boston, wanted to mail a package to a friend in Albuquerque — and the postal clerk wanted her to fill out a customs form.

However, if New Mexico is indeed missing, we can learn what took its place from this map in the April 12 edition of the Wall Street Journal. The story was about U.S. Senate races this year.

Flawed map from April 12 Wall Street Journal
Flawed map from April 12 Wall Street Journal

Just look for “CO” on the map, somewhat south of the Colorado we thought we lived in. Must be another example of how the Biased East- Coast Liberal Media fail to understand the Great American Heartland, or something like that.