He’s definitely stupid.
Side note, I never understood this state’s name, kind of confusing but then again, with 50 states I can see how you can run out of names.
New Mexico was Nuevo México before the US was the US. Hell it was Nuevo México before Jamestown was settled.
Nuevo México is often incorrectly believed to have taken its name from the post-independent nation of Mexico. But as early as 1561[5] (260 years before Mexican independence), Spanish colonial explorers used el Nuevo México to refer to Cíbola, cities of wealth reported to exist far to the north of the recently conquered Aztec Empire.[6][7][8] This name also evoked the Mexica people’s accounts of their ancestral origin in Aztlán to the north before their migration to Mexico centuries prior. The Nahuatl-language history of the Mexica people, the Crónica Mexicayotl, dated to 1609, makes this identification explicit, describing how the Mexica left “their home there in Old Mexico Aztlan Quinehuayan Chicomoztoc, which today they call New Mexico (yancuic mexico).”
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Love that New Mexico predates Mexico. It’s so full of hope and optimism.
Motion to rename “New Mexico” to “Old Mexico”
Should have been North Mexico.
Not much different than New Jersey, or New York or any other territory named for some other territory from another country. 🤷♂️
Yeah but Isn’t this kind of like finding out that New York has been called New York since before the actual town of York was founded?
RIP New Amsterdam
Why they changed it, I can’t say.
People just liked it better that way.
Actually diabolical if you think about it. We went to war with mexico, took the entire north of the rio grande from them, then were like “this shitty square is mexico now. Fuck you.”
That area, and a whole lot more like Texas and Arizona, was called Nuevo Mexico before both The US and Mexico gained their respective independences.
I will choose to disregard this information.
WAIT. Why hasn’t he renamed “Colorado” to “Coloured”?
Oh my God, how did I never notice that
To be fair, it doesn’t actually mean “coloured”, it means “reddish”. Spanish is weird like that. Anyway, I would like to direct your attention to Nevada meaning “snowed” or “snow-covered” and Florida meaning “flowery”. Also, Montana is just “montaña” (mountain) misspelled.
Why would he? It’s just a name to him, without a meaning.
Colorado sounds too Mexican.
Can he rename it in an executive order?
He could certainly try.
Google and Apple would update their maps immediately.
Not legally, but that wouldn’t mean he couldn’t do it anyway.
don’t show him!
Oh, he has this waiting in a file full of things he can do to distract from the Epstein files. He’ll get to it eventually.
he should rename it to just Mexico
