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New Mexico 2050

NEW MEXICO

2050

EDITED BY

FRED HARRIS

2015 by the University of New Mexico Press

All rights reserved. Published 2015

Printed in the United States of America

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THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE PRINTED EDITION AS FOLLOWS:

New Mexico 2050 / edited by Fred Harris.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8263-5555-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8263-5556-0 (electronic) 1. New MexicoEconomic conditions. 2. New MexicoSocial conditions. 3. EducationNew Mexico. 4. New MexicoEnvironmental policy. 5. Indians of North AmericaNew Mexico. I. Harris, Fred R., 1930
HC107.N6N415 2015
330.978900112dc23

2014042899

COVER CLIP ART 19901992 RT Computer Graphics

COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY Lila Sanchez

AUTHOR PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF Shauna Bearman

DESIGNED BY Lila Sanchez

CONTENTS

Hakim Bellamy

Fred Harris

Lee Reynis and Jim Peach

Henry Rael

Chuck Wellborn

Veronica C. Garca

Nandini Pillai Kuehn

Gabriel R. Snchez and Shannon Snchez-Youngman

Pamelya Herndon

Laura Paskus and Adrian Oglesby

Veronica E. Tiller

V. B. Price

Aaron Sussman

Fred Harris

New Mexico 2050?

A Prefatory Poem

Hakim Bellamy

New Mexico has been called
lots of things
by the Upper 48.

My favorite
is recession proof.
Like some sort of backhanded condiment,
like vinegar, when I ordered chile,
like drought, instead of desert,
like climate change for dinner
instead of rain for breakfast.

But mean
is not what they mean.
When poor is the new normal,
you cant feel the economy flatline.
Just like you couldnt feel it
when it was booming.
Just like the bottom of the ocean
unmoved by the waves.

What they meant
is irrelevant,
even insignificant.
Because we take everything
as a compliment.
Because at 2050,
with the oldest state capital in the country,
we look damn good for our age.

Compared to their Dow Jones Average
we are finally exceptional,
breaking the curve
one border at a time.

36 years from here,
New Mexico will still be exotic to others
and enchanting to us.

Well still be inventing
new names to call ourselves.
Still be creating new races
every monsoon season of love.

New Mexico will still be magic,
Like a horizon-taut canvas
making something out of nothing.
Pulling a rabbit out of the mesa
waiting a sign, with both ears
to the sky.

Nothing under its sleeve
but sacred heart ink.
Acequia Sangre underneath
its adobe-flavored skin.
Hungry for the snowpack
to finally shed a tear.

As the highways grow
wider and western than the Rio.
As the river banks
collapse like a recession
in vein.

As the scales of justice
elevate us out of poverty
instead of shackling us to it.

As the education system
weights opportunity
over place of worth.

As the sites
become more sacred,
and the sacred
becomes more scarce.

New Mexico will endure,
evolve and enchant,
as it has always done.
Under many different names...

But what about
the Nuevomexicanos?

Preface

What Can We Be? What Will We Be?

FRED HARRIS

THE PAST IS PROLOGUE. TRUE. AND SO IS THE PRESENT. BUT in New Mexico, neither of these is necessarily destiny.

A local announcer once opened the great annual Montana Crow Indian Fair Rodeo with the words, Ladies and Gentlemen and all you white people, we have cowboys here tonight from all over the worldand many other places!

Well, Im not a cowboy exactly, not an Indian either, but Ive been nearly all over the world, and many other places, and Ive never found any place I like as much as New Mexico. Thats the truth.

Weve got our problems. Everybody knows that.

And maybe people say that weve made our own bed. But we dont have to lie in it. The problems we have here in this wonderful state were by and large made by people. And they can be solved by people, too. Thats what this book is about.

A blueprint for New Mexicos future.

A handbook for New Mexicos leaders and public officials, present and potential.

A textbook for New Mexicos students.

A sourcebook for New Mexicos teachers and researchers.

A hymnbook for proud New Mexicans who want our beloved Land of Enchantment also to become the Land of Opportunity, fully and for all.

That, I am sure, is what John Byram, the dedicated and farsighted director of the University of New Mexico Press, had in mind when he asked me to organize, produce, and edit this book, New Mexico 2050. And thats what I, too, had in mind when I agreed to take on the task, after adding in my own mind a theoretical subtitle for the book: What Can We Be? What Will We Be?

With a grant (for which were most grateful) from the McCune Foundation to assist with project expenses, I set out to find recognized New Mexico experts in each subject field.

And I found them: our contributors. All of us went to work. And it has been a labor of love.

This is an honest book. I asked the contributors for each chapter, first, to be descriptiveto say frankly and plainly what the present situation in New Mexico isabout the economy, for example, or the environment. And they have done that. They tell what our liabilities are, of course. But they also tell what our assets are.

This is a courageous book. I asked the contributors for each chapter, next, to be prescriptiveto say fearlessly what we need to do in New Mexico to make things better. They have done that, too.

And this is a hopeful book. I asked the contributors for each chapter, finally, to be predictiveto say optimistically what the well-informed and wise people of New Mexico, and their leaders, can and will bring about in our states future. And the contributors have also done this.

Here in New Nexico, our ability to do what needs to be done is, of course, very much dependent upon our states economy. Thats why weve placed first in this book the solidly researched and excellently stated work of two outstanding economistsLee Reynis of the University of New Mexico and Jim Peach of New Mexico State Universitytheir chapter, New Mexico Economy.

The highly damaging and growing income inequality in our nation and in New Mexico is a problem that necessarily threads through virtually every chapter of this book, but forth the alarming dimensions and terrible effects of income inequality as well as how it can and must be ameliorated.

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