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North Dakota seeks name change.
Quote: ``People have such an instant thing about how North Dakota is cold and snowy and flat,’’
It’s not??? Hey Tripler! What the Hell have you been telling these people?
You mean North and South Dakota aren’t the same thing!?!? 
All I know is that most of the Dakotas were originally part of the Minnesota Territory and we don’t want them back now!
If they change names now it will take years before any school’s textbooks could reflect the change (at the rate they update them). In Minnesota we often say we’re going to the Dakota’s without specifying North or South.
I saw this headline in the Star Tribune earlier, and I started thinking.
This would give us Dakota and South Dakota. South Dakota would feel slighted, so they’d name themselves Greater Dakota. Dakota would see the stakes rising, so they’d name themselves Super Dakota. Greater Dakota wouldn’t be content, and they’d be Ultra Premium Dakota. This would continue until a border war erupted while the rest of the nation muffled their laughter.
Actually, what I think would be a better idea is if South Dakota were to beat North Dakota to changing their name to Dakota. Then North Dakota would realize they were one-upped by their southern neighbors, and then the border war would erupt.
Basically, I want to see North Dakota go to war with South Dakota and have one annex the other. If we end up with just ‘Dakota’, then we’re down to 49 states, and we’d need to annex Canada as the 50th state to keep the flag intact. It’s our patriotic duty.
(Either Canada or maybe Britain. They’re basically the 51st and 52nd states anyway…)
They’re doing it because someone told them of all the improvements that happened when East Virginia changed its name. 
How quickly the Minnesotans forget that in fact they changed their name from “North Iowa” not toooo long ago. Although I have noticed a marked improvement in driving abilities. (local humor)
I love this idea. Although maybe we could name ourselves “Better than that hick state to the North of us” or “Not as cold and flat as our Northern neighbors”.
I’m sorry, LNO, but I couldn’t disagree with you more.
We’d be laughing so hard and loud that Kamchatka would turn it’s head and say “What was that?” 
[sub]Other than that, you’re spot on![/sub]
I’ve got a simple solution - North Dakota should change its name to South Saskatchewan. 
I think just dropping the “North” is insufficient. How about:
North Florida
Northeast California
Tropical Fun Paradise USA
La Dakota del Norte
Fargo-land
This reminds me of the Futurama episode where they drove across the country and we saw the boundaries of the 31st-century United States.
Among other changes, Pennsylvania had split into the Penn Republic and Sylvania.
If Aladamnbama changed its name to West Georgia, would they get any more respect? No, probably not.
Well, I live in Florida which seems to be divided into
REALLY South Georgia
and
REALLY REALLY Southern NewYorkIllinoisMichiganMassachussettsandlotsofCanada
judging from the license plates of the locals.
You got that right. . . I love the distinct lack of any other statement to the contrary . . .
I apologize for my tardiness to this thread. I’ve been on vacation on the East Coast trying to forget about NORTH FCKIN’ DAKOTA*. In any case, I haven’t been telling them a thing. Except for “purple mountain majesty” in the Rockies, how “thine alabaster cities gleam” in Washington and Philly, and all the other places that NoDakers just can’t even quite get a mental image of.
Just get me the hell out of there. I don’t care what they call it. Dante said it best, it’s the 9th Circle of Hell
Tripler
Bitter? No. It’s too damn cold to be bitter.
Hey, Trip - your home state is next - there is no New Jersey, just West New York and East Philadelphia. (and West NY already exists - any analogue near Camden?)
cribbed from article
``The problem with North Dakota is that no one knows about us,’’ Peterson said.
No, we just don’t CARE…
Hey lets split em along a line of longitude and have East and West Dakota…
Let’s not forget the proper name of that English speaking country across the big pond …
The United Kingdom of Great Britan, Northern Ireland, and Kissimmee.
Western New York … it’s actually a discontiguous section of Ohio.
New Mexico … well, there’s those in the eastern part of the state that secretly wish they were part of Texas; those in the southern part of the state that are awaiting the downfall of the United States so Mexico will return and take was was rightfully theirs; and those in the north, who are holding out for the viceroys of Spain to make a comeback.
Hey, if it does erupt my money is on South Dakota. Governor Janklow is a true force of chaos in the world.
Any Governor with the balls to essentially declare a unilateral trade war on Canada is a man to be reckoned with. He’s done it. Stopped all those Canadian trucks at the border! And bragged on it, too.
And hey, my mom lives in the Black Hills. You don’t wanna mess with her either. Trust me, I’ve tried.
Ya know, this name change thing started as a freekin JOKE about five years ago if I correctly recall. Can you beleve this Ed Schafer shmo got himself elected governor TWICE?
Here in North Dakota, there is a reall employment problem.
Seems that as soon as young people graduate college, they leave the state. We are sitting at the lowest unemployment rate ever. It’s like .5% or some such. There are not enough employees to fill the low-paying, dead end jobs. Employers in this state are in a panic over the lack of warm bodies to work, and yet refuse to do anything REAL to keep people from leaving, like paying a living wage, or stop splitting full time jobs into part time ones.
And to our former governor, the biggest problem we have, the one he must devote his abundant time to, is the word “North” in our state name.
Minnesota looks better every frickin day. sigh
The problem, as I see it, is that North Dakota is north of what? South Dakota. South Dakota is south of…North Dakota. Maybe there should be a neutral zone between the two called Dakota. That way the militant, anti-name change people (all three of them. So far as I can tell, there are maybe 35 people-grand total-that live in the Dakotas) can stay in North Dakota or South Dakota. And both of the other residents can live in Dakota, which is north of South Dakota and south of North Dakota.
I can’t help ya man. I can’t sympathize, and I can’t help ya. I do at times wonder who’s gonna run all the farms when the old folks get too old and keel over. . .
But then I’m reminded that I can’t drive faster than 42 MPH when going to work in December, because my engine block freezes from the wind chill and I stall out. But if NoDak and SoDak declare war on each other, I have to take NoDak’s side, only because I’m currently here. As soon as I can, I’m deserting from that fight.
Tripler
Thank God for Arizona
You mean you people don’t respect my lovely home state?
Speaking of which, Ogre, when will you return from DC?
On the subject of North Dakota, though, couldn’t we just donate them to Canada?
I personally dont care one way or the other what they do. But, since I was born in North Dakota, I think it would be mighty cool to be able to say I was born in a place that no longer exists. A great conversation starter.