A somewhat bizarre difference between AZ and NM

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Northern Arizona has a sizable Mormon population, which tends to vote Republican.

Southern NM, particularly SW NM is sometimes called Little Texas. It resembles West Texas, demographically and politically (flinty, hardscrabble ranchers and über-conservative oil/gas interests).

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Northern Arizona has a sizable Mormon population, which tends to vote Republican.

Southern NM, particularly SW NM is sometimes called Little Texas.

That's East New Mexico - far northeast as well as southeast. Basically what shows the largest swing here:





(2000 presidential and 2002 gubernatorial. Harry Teague's 2008 House win also depended on Little Texans' penchant to occasionally desert the GOP en masse. Though obviously not, not in a long time, in presidential elections.)

Meant to say SE and typed SW for some reason. I stand corrected.