Business Rankings, State-By-State

Brother-in-law is down on New Mexico's standing:

One could say the democrats have run the state of NM into the ground.

I'm not worried. It’s good to take all these business rankings with a grain of salt. Remember, in 2006, Forbes Magazine ranked Albuquerque as the nation’s top metro area for business and careers, despite its crime rate.

New Mexico has always been a pretty poor place to make money, whether Democrats or Republicans run the place. Businesswise, the place has always been either a colony of Texas, or California. It doesn’t have that much in the way of resources and capital, and educational levels have always been poor.