# Let's rename New Mexico **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 29, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-new-mexico/526950 "2010-01-29T21:11:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-new-mexico/526950/1 "2010-01-29T21:11:00Z")
Following a thread in GQ and another in MPSIMS, it’s clear that the source of confusion in a lot of really ignorant people is that the name New Mexico just sounds too foreign, too unAmerican. A large enough percentage of people think that it is not a US state that the problem is clearly the name itself. So let’s do our Santa Fean, Albuquerquian, and Las Crucian brothers and sisters a favor and let them back into the Union. They’ve earned it. Besides, we need their tax pesos. Suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-new-mexico/526950/2 "2010-01-29T21:13:46Z")
Our Mexico. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-new-mexico/526950/3 "2010-01-29T21:14:47Z")
New Amsterdam! ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-new-mexico/526950/4 "2010-01-29T21:15:48Z")
East Maine. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-new-mexico/526950/5 "2010-01-29T21:16:30Z")
Baja Colorado West West Texas Oklahoma Hangnail Southeast Corner Gadsden ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-new-mexico/526950/6 "2010-01-29T21:20:23Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > New Amsterdam! Awesome. Will the exclamation point officially be part of the name? We could do the same with Oklahoma. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-new-mexico/526950/7 "2010-01-29T21:22:05Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Awesome. Will the exclamation point officially be part of the name? We could do the same with Oklahoma. Yup. And I hereby nominate a question mark for California. (California? I hardly know her!) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-new-mexico/526950/8 "2010-01-29T21:23:24Z")
New Texaco ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-new-mexico/526950/9 "2010-01-29T21:23:30Z")
Encanto. As in, La Tierra del Encanto, or the Land of Enchantment. I know, you’re wondering, how would a Spanish name make it sound _less_ foreign? But nobody has any trouble with Colorado, Nevada, Montana, or Florida. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-new-mexico/526950/10 "2010-01-29T21:26:49Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Yup. And I hereby nominate a question mark for California. (California? I hardly know her!) Agreed, but as part of the deal Massachusetts will be followed with a colon. My suggestion for New Mexico’s new name? Canada. But then we’ll have to rename Canada. We could call it Mexico. That should eliminate any confusion. ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-new-mexico/526950/11 "2010-01-29T21:28:51Z")
Old Canada. Or East Carolina. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-new-mexico/526950/12 "2010-01-29T21:29:45Z")
Hexico Sandland Alien Station HinterCo New Spain ---
**Author:** ![howye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@howye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howye)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-new-mexico/526950/13 "2010-01-29T21:39:00Z")
Sell of the naming rights! Highest bidder wins. “Welcome to the state of Raymond James University of Phoenix Qwest.” ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-new-mexico/526950/14 "2010-01-29T21:45:32Z")
> [@howye](#): > > “Welcome to the state of Raymond James University of Phoenix Qwest.” “ **Pepsi Presents** Welcome to the state of Raymond James University of Phoenix Qwest.” ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-new-mexico/526950/15 "2010-01-29T21:51:39Z")
Cozonax - at least is will be easy to remember the surrounding states Tejas - if for no other reason then it would piss off a lot of Texans ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-new-mexico/526950/16 "2010-01-29T21:55:56Z")
Because someone’s gotta say it: There’s a _new_ Mexico?! > [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > New Amsterdam! Ya know, in 100 years, when the US has been divided up, young students will be looking at their textbooks about New Amsterdam, and saying, “Why’d they change it? I can’t say.” Maybe people just like it better that way. ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-new-mexico/526950/17 "2010-01-29T22:01:27Z")
Southern Ohio, while we’re talking about using other states locations as states of reference. Better yet, _Way Southern Canada_. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-new-mexico/526950/18 "2010-01-29T22:17:18Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > New Texaco > [@Shagnasty](#): > > Hexico Both of these are winners. New Texican Prairie ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-new-mexico/526950/19 "2010-01-29T22:19:56Z")
Colutazexas. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2010, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-rename-new-mexico/526950/20 "2010-01-29T22:22:25Z")
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