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How could we have let this happen?

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Lt_Worf@lemmy.ca⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • xNIBx@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    New Mexico predates Mexico. From wikipedia

    New Mexico received its name long before the present-day nation of Mexico won independence from Spain and adopted that name in 1821. The name "Mexico" derives from Nahuatl and originally referred to the heartland of the Mexica, the rulers of the Aztec Empire, in the Valley of Mexico

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    • agoseris@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      True, but the meme cites Mexico City, which was called “Mexico City” before New Mexico was established

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    • Lt_Worf@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So Mexico should be New New Mexico, and New Mexico should be Old New Mexico.

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      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        We could just call one North and the other South. And then write a popular folk song that calls out landmarks South Mexico that are really Southern North Mexico. Country Roads style.

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  • SaveComengs@lemmy.federa.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    oh jeebz, they’re making the rest of the world great again

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  • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Worst of all is georgia, disgusting!

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    • k2helix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      why? (not from the US)

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      • xbhaktapur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Because there’s an entire country named Georgia 🇬🇪

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      • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        not from the US

        Because there’s a USbstate named Georgia.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Never mind international cities, Indiana has a New Chicago. I don’t know how that even works.

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    • Lt_Worf@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We must find a newer Chicago.

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      • phoneymouse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Only to be outdone when someone discovers the newest Chicago.

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    • jscummy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Kinda like New Coke in that case

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  • PostnataleAbtreibung@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    New York —> new Amsterdam —> Amsterdam (Netherlands)

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    • generic@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why’d they change it? I can’t say. People just liked it better that way!

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      • CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So take me back to Constantinople

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      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I have a friend who has a house fairly close to New York City that was built by the Dutch. Just a fun fact.

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    • poudlardo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      To second his, Harlem the neighbourhood in New York originates from Haarlem, an actual city near Amsterdam.

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    • flames5123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But new Amsterdam is gin.

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    • gullible@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What a waste. To think we could have had a new war of the roses if the New Lancastrians hadn’t ducked out.

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  • nxfsi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What city is new England based on?

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    • Lemmylefty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I dunno but it’s the size of England.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      England City, the capital of England. Duh.

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  • jasondj@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My face when I realize I live in New England.

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    • MaxMouseOCX@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Greetings from old England.

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  • Haha@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    America is that newborn that thinks whatever his ancestors has are his

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    • EditsHisComments@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Americans are more like the English than they realize lol

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  • s_s@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When you learn that Mexicans named New Mexico…

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Spaniards named New Mexico a couple centuries before Mexico existed.

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico

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      • s_s@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The Mexica existed long before the Spanish arrived. They migrated to the Valley of Mexico from a land in the north they referred to as Aztlán when the Toltecs went into decline.

        Nuevo Mexico was named by the Spanish in reference to this history, as they were following the Rio Grande north searching for the Cities of Gold referenced in these same Mexica (ie Aztec) legends.

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    • basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, US annexed New Mexico and Texas, which originally belonged to Mexico.

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Kind of. The Spanish named New Mexico in the 1600s, and it was a much larger territory than the current state. The Mexicans named Mexico in 1821 when they gained their independence from Spain, and they acquired New Mexico as well. Then the US annexed it in the late 1800s.

        en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico

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      • Spur4383@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And California…

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wait till the Kentuckians hear about Versailles France. They ain’t gonna like that

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  • jordanlund@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    God help you when you hit Springfield… or Portland.

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  • affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    they can keep the old versions

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  • Zoldyck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    RIP New Amsterdam

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  • silvercove@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Everybody knows that new Mexico is not part of the USA! 🤣

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      New Mexico was named such before Mexico was named. The Spaniards named a much larger territory that encompassed all of the current state of New Mexico, New Mexico. A couple centuries later the Mexican people revolted and gained their independence, and named the country Mexico in 1821

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico

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    • mycelium_underground@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      New Mexico was New Mexico long before Mexico was Mexico

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  • basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well, but New York is actually named after the duke of York

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  • son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There’s a new Mexico now?

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    • Lt_Worf@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Slow down there, maestro!

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  • mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We are version 2.0 so surely they must be better

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  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have always wanted to go visit original, or Classic York.

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    • PrinceFidget@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Vanilla York

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    • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It used to be called Amsterdam.

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      • ripcord@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not Constantinople

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      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Why did they change it?

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think Virginia is worst of the lot, as it was named after Elizabeth the first; the virgin queen.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      (definitely wasn’t a virgin)

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    • TwinTusks@outpost.zeuslink.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Its so shameful that Elizabeth I would stole Virginia from Virginia.

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