The Untitled State of America, abbreviation “US.”
Juchimama
I like “Nuevo Espaniola”, or “Estado de Encantados”…or (maybe) “Jornado de Muerto”
Sandia
Greater Roswell
Queso
Looking at the map, I see towns named Pie Town and Wagon Mound. Either of those.
Also a town named Dusty. That’s good, too.
I think that if we’re going to just repurpose a name that’s already there, we should go with Elephant Butte (heh, it sounds like “elephant butt”), Radium Springs (because…well, it kind of is accurate), or Truth or Consequences (because why the hell not?).
ETA: Radium Springs or Elephant Butte would probably be better, because T or C is kind of a town, with people living in it (albeit a small town even by NM standards). I don’t think the other two are towns by any real meaning of the word.
We could just make the town of Truth or Consequences change its name back to Hot Springs.
HEY, no picking on Radium Springs, thats where I live(when I’m not at the shop in Hatch). Directly behind Fort Seldon, I have ruins about 100 feet outside my front door. Its certainly not a town, though it has grown, to maybe 1600 people, I would barely even consider it a village. We have a community center, the general store just closed, a post orfice, a little diner and a dive bar. No gang activity, though there are some hoodlums.
There is the old radium springs hotel(I don’t even know if its open right now), that used to be a women’s prison, with natural hotsprings.
Its a cool little place with some damn good people.
Not many little villages with an old late 1800’s fort as a center piece. General MacArthur was there when he was a yung’n with his dad, Arthur MacArthur, and his brother Arthur MacArthur Jr.
Truth or Consequences is actually a decent size. I mean really, they have a traffic light.
Elephant butte is getting big too, they were talking about a Wally world there since TorC rejected it.
I say we call it Carthago Nova. Because, hey, why the hell not?
How about “Tutsquat”? Apparently, it’s Hopi for “Land”. And, it’s kinda funny.
Well holy hell, was I ever not expecting to be called on that, let alone by a resident of one of those places! Understand my suggestion was made with full respect - I find the name great and somehow deeply appropriate for a state with such a nuclear (dare I say…glowing?) history. No offense intended, and to explain the jab about small towns…I spent the first 18 years of my life in New Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia. It took quite a while before I stopped getting freaked out the vast expanse of empty space between Santa Fe and Albuquerque - I’m still working on the rest of the state. I do, however, refuse to make an effort to stop giggling whenever I see a reference to Elephant Butte, because it’s such a silly name.
(Also…Walmart? In T or C? That strikes me as an idea conceived by someone who hadn’t ever so much as talked to someone who’d been there.)
Mexico Ver. 2.0427b3
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Polk
“Not Mexico”
That should clear things up.
“Almost Mexico”?
“Used to be Mexico”?
I like “Guadalupe Hidalgo,” but so as not to be confusing for people that actually do know that there’s a Hidalgo state in Mexico, maybe just “Guadalupe”?
Or, “Jajalosdemocratastelorobaron”? Nah, too politically inflamed, I’d guess.
Zia. Not only is it the name of the sun symbol on the state flag, it would knock Wyoming out of that “alphabetically last” status the Equality State has enjoyed for far too long.
Even if you live here, you have to pick on it.
As a native of the east coast also (Massoftwoshits), this place is heaven. And now its home, I’m setting up camp and stayin’ a while.
The worst part about living in NOT Mexico is waking up every morning and asking yourself “what the hell am I doing in New Mexico?!?!”
The State Formerly Known As New Mexico