What's up with some of those counties in Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado? Are Latinos leaving, or are they starting to solely identify as white?
Low income, and low population. So young people leave to Denver or Albuquerque. Retirees or persons not tied to a city for work, can afford to buy a sizable chunk of land, because they aren't having to compete for limited space in the mountain valleys in the central Rockies. And because of the low population, a few 100 people represent 10% of the population.
