Apparently 60 percent of native New Mexicans have left the state, and only 2 percent of them come back. That’s what Dely Alcantara found, according to Williams. Alcantara is the senior demographer at the University of New Mexico Bureau of Business and Economic Research.

“I was quite surprised by that,” Alcantara tells Williams. “‘Cause I’ve always been told, at least anecdotally, that New Mexicans love the state…that, you know, although there is migration out of the state, that eventually they come back.”