Rural areas, tribal lands hit hardest by census interruption

Orlando, Fla. • Even though they’re neighbors, two New Mexico counties couldn’t be further apart in the rate of people answering the 2020 census.Los Alamos County, where the atomic bomb was born and many people are highly educated, has one of the nation's highest response rates at 79%. Rio Arriba County, where a language other than English is spoken in over half of homes, is at the bottom at 9%.The reason for the difference? Households in Rio Arriba and other rural counties acro