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List of New Mexico state symbols

This is a list of state symbols of New Mexico.[1]

Type Symbol Year
State motto Latin: Crescit eundo (It Grows as It Goes) 1912
State nicknames Land of Enchantment (Spanish: Tierra del Encanto or Tierra Encantada) 19_?
The Colorful State 19_?
The Spanish State 19_?
State songs O Fair New Mexico 1917
Spanish: Asi Es Nuevo México 1971
New Mexico-Mi Lindo Nuevo México 1995
State flower Yucca flower 1927
State tree Two-Needle Piñon pine 1949
State bird Greater roadrunner 1949
State fish Cutthroat trout 1955
State animal black bear 1963
State vegetables frijoles con chile (English pronunciation: /friːˈhoʊləs koʊn ˈtʃiːlə/, us dict: frē∙hōl′∙əs cōn chē′•lə) beans and chile pepper 1965
State gem turquoise 1967
State grass blue grama 1973
State fossil coelophysis 1981
State cookie bizcochito 1989
State insect tarantula wasp 1989
State ballad Land of Enchantment 1989
State poem Spanish: A Nuevo México 1991
State question * "Red or Green?" 1999
State Tie Bolo Tie 2007
State ship USS New Mexico (BB-40) 1918•1946
USS New Mexico (SSN-779) 2008
State amphibian New Mexico Spadefoot Toad 2003
State butterfly Sandia Hairstreak 2003
State cowboy song Under New Mexico Skies 2009[2]

(*)The official state question refers to a question commonly heard at restaurants, where waiters will ask customers "red or green?" in reference to which kind of chili pepper or "chile sauce" the customers wants served with their meal. This type of "chile" is usually distinct from salsa, as the chile sauce is much finer and thicker and more commonly served with meals. Natives are more likely to refer to the chili sauce put on their meal as just plain "chile", and not as any form of "salsa" (which is usually reserved by natives in English for the salsa served with chips; everything else is just "chile").

Further reading

References

  1. ^ "New Mexico Secretary of State: KID'S Corner". http://www.sos.state.nm.us/KidsCorner/StateSymbols.html. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
  2. ^ ""Under New Mexico Skies" Declared Official State Cowboy Song". New Mexico Music Commission, New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs. 2009-03-29. http://www.newmexicomusic.org/news.php?select=840. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
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