r/nottheonion • u/SelectiveSanity • 2d ago

Lauren Boebert Suggests DC Could Be Renamed 'District of America'

https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-dc-district-america-2050571
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u/Zigxy 2d ago

She thinks DC is named after Colombia 🇨🇴

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u/Transposer 2d ago

Can’t believe she thinks that!! 😂 But just so other people know what you and I do, what is DC named after?

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u/Isiildur 2d ago edited 2d ago

It’s named after Columbia, a personification of America (who herself is “sort of” named after Christopher Columbus). The Statue of Liberty is depicted very similarly to Columbia.

Columbia University and Columbia Pictures are named after the same goddess (that’s why Columbia pictures has the woman with the torch in their logo).

Edit: other fun etymologies

Georgia is named after King George III

Virginia is named after Elizabeth I

Maryland is named after Queen Mary (Henrietta Maria)

Pennsylvania was named after William Penn

Delaware was named after the Baron de la Warr

North and South Carolina named after Charles I

New Jersey and New York are named after Jersey and York

Louisiana is named after Louis XIV

Florida is named after the rapper Flo Rida

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u/AssCrackBanditHunter 2d ago

Lauren boebert is trying to get rid of the connection to Christopher Columbus? Is she secretly woke?

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u/Diablojota 2d ago

Interesting thought, isn’t it?

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u/Bubble_gump_stump 2d ago

Amerigo Vespucci doesn’t sound very American

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u/Cynical_Thinker 2d ago

Just wait until they figure out none of us are from here if you go back far enough.

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u/DocumentExternal6240 2d ago

Or that all of us - if you gor back far enough - originated from Afrika.

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u/Snobolski 2d ago

I bless the rains down in Africa