@uncle_djpj: The United States made New Mexico wait 62 years to become a state, killing roughly 50 statehood bills, because Congress thought it was too Catholic, too Mexican, too Indian, and too Spanish speaking. By then, Santa Fe had been a functioning capital for 300 years. And when New Mexico finally got to write its constitution in 1910, it refused to erase itself. It wrote protections for Spanish speakers directly into the founding document, in the exact era the South was building Jim Crow. The oldest capital in America, 19 Pueblos, and the atomic bomb, all in one state. ——- #newmexico #History #santafe #elnorte #americannations