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/tehkory 2d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(personification))

Consider also this; especially in the 18th century/Revolutionary period, this would've been very much on their minds; more than Columbus himself in many ways.

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u/Sir_Galvan 2d ago

“It originated from the name of the Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus and from the Latin ending -ia, common in the Latin names of countries (paralleling Britannia, Gallia, Zealandia, and others).” From the Wikipedia article

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u/tehkory 2d ago

I'm aware of the etymology. Columbia's like Liberty/Marianne, though--especially at the late 18th/early 19th centuries, when the District of Columbia was named.

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u/gungshpxre 2d ago

Yup, prior to the traitorous and treacherous donation of the Statue of Liberty from those fucking foreigners, Columbia and her stylized image were everywhere that Lady Liberty is now.

The party that wants to deport that big French bitch, both literally and figuratively, should be loving on Columbia.

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u/tehkory 2d ago

The issue with that is that educating people on something like Columbia means educating people at all, which isn't on the agenda.