>>1697651>but a fuckton of those settlers and their descendants from NM moved into CO.Less than you'd think from current statistics and mostly Into the far southern part of the state - the San Luis valley, along the Sangres, over into Four Corners and up the western slope (Hotchkiss/Delta/GJ/etc.) are all pretty Mexican-heavy but in decades past those areas (ie what was Nuevo Mexico, which ended at the Arkansas) were pretty much the only part of the state with a significant Mexican population and used to be smaller. On top of that, it should also be mentioned that much of the higher elevations were generally only seasonally inhabited [read: used for pasture and forage in the summer and hunting/trapping in other parts of the year] and that most of the settlements not in the Sangres had butt fucking nothing to do with either Spain or Mexico and were established by French and/or burgers.
>I've never met anyone descended from Mexican land owners in COI've met several and they were all shitheads.
