New Mexico is mostly empty and has a relatively small population, so unlikely to rank high in absolute statistics for anything.
This is exactly why looking at per capita statistics to account for this is more useful.
New York State had 454 cases and has 20 million people. New Mexico had 64 cases, and has 2 million people, which is actually worse, if you adjust for the population.
California ostensibly has 39 million people, probably more in reality because of illegals. It has more than 3 times the cases of New York State, but only twice the population, so the rate per person is much worse.
Curious: States that are low and yet next to one or more dark colored states. AL, WV, NM, AR.
New Mexico is mostly empty and has a relatively small population, so unlikely to rank high in absolute statistics for anything.
This is exactly why looking at per capita statistics to account for this is more useful.
New York State had 454 cases and has 20 million people. New Mexico had 64 cases, and has 2 million people, which is actually worse, if you adjust for the population.
California ostensibly has 39 million people, probably more in reality because of illegals. It has more than 3 times the cases of New York State, but only twice the population, so the rate per person is much worse.
I might make a map adjusting this per capita...