<P> In the 20th century immigrants and migrants brought new skills, outlooks and values, modernizing the highly traditional culture of the state . They included Midwestern farmers who tried to cultivate humid - area crops to the desert climate, Texas oilmen, tuberculosis patients who sought healing in the dry air (before an appropriate antibiotic was discovered), artists who made Taos a national cultural center, New Dealers who sought to modernize the state as fast as possible and improve infrastructure, soldiers and airmen from all over who came for training at the many military bases, noted scientists who came to Los Alamos to build a super weapon, and stayed on, and retirees from colder climes . They brought money and new ideas . The state residents gradually adopted more of a standard national culture, losing some of its unique qualities . </P> <P> The building for the State Supreme Court was constructed during the Great Depression as a WPA project, completed in 1937 . It's an example of the numerous projects which the Democratic administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt collaborated on with states in order to improve infrastructure, invest in facilities, and put people to work . Prior to that project, the Supreme Court met in the basement of the state capitol . </P> <P> The suffrage movement in the state worked hard to get women the vote but were stymied by the conservatism of politicians and the Catholic Church . New Mexico's legislature was one of the last in 1920 to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution . After it passed, there was quickly a dramatic increase in political participation by both Anglo and Hispanic women, as well as strong mobilization efforts by the major parties to gain the support of the female voters . </P> <P> New Mexico proportionately suffered the loss of more servicemen than any other state in the nation . The state led in the national war bond drive and had fifty federal installations, including glider and bombardier training schools . The state rapidly modernized during the war, as 65,000 young men (and 700 young women) joined the services, where they received a wide range of technical training and saw the outside world, many for the first time . Federal spending brought wartime prosperity, along with high wages, jobs for everyone, rationing and shortages . Federal facilities have continued to be major contributors to the state's economy in the postwar years . </P>

True or false the depression arrived in oklahoma after it did in the rest of the nation