Gulf watch
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I'm sure an official answer will come out when someone measures it again. From the eye, the US should have more... if anything for all the little deviations in the coastline in Florida and the Keys. Those add up. Trust me, in Minnesota, we are proud (besides Alaska) to have the most "coast line". If you include just Ocean and Lakes, we have more than California, we have more than Florida... LOL. If you include rivers, it's even better.
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@jon-nyc said in Gulf watch:
On the merits it seems weird. Europeans named it the Gulf of Mexico before the US was even founded.
A lot of those rinky-dink foreign nations that Britain used to own renamed themselves and their cities in an attempt to regain some kind of national pride. I guess you chaps are attempting to do the same, although naming your seashore after some Italian bloke seems a bit backward.
I also look forward to New York finally throwing off it's imperial past as per my previous suggestion.
I'm no expert, but...
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We just refer to it as The Gulf.
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@jon-nyc said in Gulf watch:
Europeans named it the Gulf of Mexico
Europeans?
Maybe the Europeans who came by way of the Alaskan land bridge about 15,000 years ago.
The name "Mexico" originates from the Nahuatl (Aztec) word "Mēxihco," which is believed to mean "the place of Mexi" or "the navel of the moon," referring to the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan's location on an island in Lake Texcoco, which was seen as the center of the world by the indigenous people; "Mexi" is thought to be related to the Aztec war god, Mexitli, who is associated with the moon.
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@jon-nyc said in Gulf watch:
My guess is they’ll wait until the US Geological Survey officially changes the name.
Or possibly until America's more serious problems have all been solved. So, maybe 2026?
I'm no expert, but...
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@Copper said in Gulf watch:
@jon-nyc said in Gulf watch:
Europeans named it the Gulf of Mexico
Europeans?
Maybe the Europeans who came by way of the Alaskan land bridge about 15,000 years ago.
The name "Mexico" originates from the Nahuatl (Aztec) word "Mēxihco," which is believed to mean "the place of Mexi" or "the navel of the moon," referring to the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan's location on an island in Lake Texcoco, which was seen as the center of the world by the indigenous people; "Mexi" is thought to be related to the Aztec war god, Mexitli, who is associated with the moon.
Nah, the Spaniards named it the Gulf of Mexico after they whooped up on the Aztecs but I guess felt bad enough to let them keep their name on the body of water.
Personally I'd rename it to Hurricane Alley.
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St. Petersburg, FL could be renamed New Leningrad.
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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@Horace said in Gulf watch:
@Mik said in Gulf watch:
We have a national debt of x trillion dollars. The name of the Gulf is not a national priority.
I don't think renaming it, detracts from other priorities.
I think that is exactly what it is intended to do. Look over here! No, don't look over THERE!
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Sure, food still costs a bloody fortune, but hey, I renamed something after AMERICA!
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So glad everyone is focused on this rather than the other stuff…
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Trump along with his discipleship are welcome to call the Gulf of Mexico whatever it wants or, as in this case, decrees. He ought not however claim the US being treated unfairly, when the rest of the world continues to refer to it as the Gulf of Mexico.
