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On US and its toponym conventions 2017-06-27 06:48:35 Post No. 76557110
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Why did the US administration not translate or change the Spanish-language place-names of the territories that once belonged to the Spanish Empire they incorporated into the Union during the XIX century?
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Because the names St. Francis and The Angels would attract unwanted Irish immigration.
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>>76557110
>every city is named Washington or New "insert European city"
Were they in a habit of renaming anything?
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>>76557110
Why would they?
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>>76557583
>tfw live in a state with no cities named like this
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>>76557583
I'm from New England. 90% of places are English or Native words with French in northern NE and some odd Biblical or other European names.
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>>76557207
San Francisco was known as Yerba Buena prior to the US annexation of California.
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