Syndicate this site's blog Monday, August 09, 2004
New Mexico fact for the week
On Friday it was pointed out to me that New Mexico licence plates not only have the state written on them, they also have “USA” beside it (there’s also space at the top for the county name, and the motto at the bottom: ‘Land of Enchantment’).
Exhibit A:
Licence plates from other states don’t include the country description.
Exhibit B:
The reason for this (and I’m not making this up) is that many of our fellow Americans outside the Southwest don’t know that New Mexico actually is a state in the union, and tend to lump us in with the real Mexicans over the border.
So, just to clarify, the New Mexico licence plate has USA on it so that other Americans don’t think we’re from another country.
