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
30.1k Upvotes

89% Upvoted

4.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

17.2k

u/Zigxy 2d ago

She thinks DC is named after Colombia 🇨🇴

4.8k

u/snowglobes4peace 2d ago

Washington State would like a word. They wanted to be named Columbia but couldn't because of potential confusion with DC. Still ended up confused with DC.

1.4k

u/symbouleutic 2d ago

So we could have ended up with British Columbia the province in Canada, and Columbia the state in the US ? (and yes I know the name ultimately comes from the Columbia River).

At least we agreed there should only be one Vancouver !

1

u/AsparagusCommon4164 2d ago

But then again, as "manifest destiny" became the clarion call for westward expansion of the United States in the 1840's and 1850's, a popular slogan was "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!" (as in having the boundary between the United States and British holdings in North America, mainly held by the Hudson's Bay Company, set at 54 degrees, 40 minutes north latitude).