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Most Common Country of Birth for Foreign-Born Residents (excluding Mexico), by State. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

New Mexico has two very big national labs. Los Alamos National Labs, and Sandia National Labs.

LANL was founded by Oppenheimer. They still do mostly "energy" work, but a ton of materials, chemistry, and weapons research.

SNL does mostly weapons, satellites, and uh... alien tech, we'll say.

Both labs employ a lot of Germans. They're efficient and good at science.

There are also a lot of companies that work with the laboratories, not to mention Intel and others involved in computational component manufacturing and design. The state got a lot of CHIPs act finding. So, yeah, New Mexico has a lot of hard science opportunities, and Germans tend to like hard sciences.