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Meeting in the middle wasn’t a good outcome…

If you think political division is troubling today, a quick look back at New Mexico history shows that things haven’t changed much in more than 150 years. A brief excerpt from a book by noted New Mexico historian Ralph Emerson Twitchell shows how rough things got during a political campaign in 1871. The story wasContinue reading “Meeting in the middle wasn’t a good outcome…”