A helpful poll

[james_davis_nicoll]

[Poll #1921533]

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Lower Corte.

[kiya]

Well played.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

I raise my glass to you.

[dsrtao]

In my timeline, Wikipedia says this:

On January 6, 1912, after years of debate on whether the population of New Mexico was fully assimilated into American culture, the United States Congress admitted New Mexico as the 47th state of the Union. The admission of the neighboring State of Arizona on February 14, 1912 completed the contiguous 48 states.

which is consistent with my memory.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but that's Wikipedia, which can be edited by anyone including New Mexicans planning on making the claim that they are American citizens.

[dsrtao]

Is it your contention, sir, that they are also editing my memory?

...that would explain a lot.

[badger.livejournal.com]

I'll go with Carcosa.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Some other option: my vote contains three; mine, my son's, and my daughter in law's.

Mine: Cibola, because I like onions.

Hana's: "I would like to complain about this poll" sounds like a good name for a state, though we'd have to come up with a clever short version." (this devolved into a discussion of what a hole New Mexico is)

Frank had no comment on his choice, New Iran, beyond "I don't think Jesus sharia is different from other sharia."

[peter-erwin.livejournal.com]

The second choice would enable awesome addresses like:

Truth or Consequences, I Would LIke to Complain About This Poll

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Worth it just for that, really.

[stevendj.livejournal.com]

West Nunavut.

[keithmm.livejournal.com]

South Nunavut. West Nunavut is already reserved for Alaska when we get around to reorganizing it.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I was embracing a local tradition by using directions not actually related to which direction the region was actually in relative to the one it was borrowing a name from (Queen St S is west of King, Queen St N is east of King).

[keithmm.livejournal.com]

Well, navigation is rather important to us up here, so we're more careful about that sort of thing.[1]

1. Which is why the assorted projects to get Inuktitut place-names replacing Norwegian, English, and French place-names has hit the small snag that there are only so many "Big Island"s and "Small Lake"s one can have in a jurisdiction our size before it gets a little useless.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

To be fair, King Street runs north, south, east, AND west, and parallels itself while crossing itself in three places.

K-W geography is suspiciously non-Euclidian in spots.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Hah!!!

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Catsylvania.

[mrteufel.livejournal.com]

Catatonia.
Catspaw.
Catalan.

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Nuevo Dust Bowl

[chomiji]

*plays sad trombone*

[julesjones]

I think we need the following option added to polls like these: "I don't know what set James off on this, but I'm sure I'd regret asking"

[iayork.livejournal.com]

I think we need the following option added to polls like these: "I don't know what set James off on this, but I'm sure I'd regret askingI'd like to subscribe to the newsletter."

[nelc.livejournal.com]

North Mexico? Not Mexican At All?

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Land of Enchantment. It would save a lot of money.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

With added nickname, "New Mexico."

Or maybe "Old New Mexico."

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Texas.

It is a part of the Republic of Texas which they won fair and square in the Mexican war. So there. :P

Love, C.

[elegantelbow.livejournal.com]

alas, poor New Mexico
so far from heaven
so close to Texas

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

The Land Bridge to the actual target for Texas -- California, her gold mines and her access to the Pacific markets.

Hahahaha Texas. NM -- meaning current state / territory then New Mexico -- not AZ -- whipped your ass more than once in your hubristic drive.

Still, that other part then called New Mexico I duely expect to be the first Second in Companion neo Secession with Texas, which is likely to happen within the next 10 years. Unless, of course, the GOP own the Oval Office for the next ten years, thus making secession unnecessary. Why yes, we have been here before. Though it won't be the same. It never is. For instance the War of 1812, the New England states essentially seceded, though they didn't do it formally.

Love, C.

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

As an inhabitant of New Mexico, I resent being associated with Texans. Anyway, most Republicans "secessionists" are far too chickenshit to ever go through with it: if Texas actually tries to secede, I will be very surprised.

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

They've done it before ....

If Perry doesn't get to be Prez (can you BELIEVE he's trying it again? It went so well last time....) there won't be need to thoughl

Nor was I associating NM with TX at all -- you guys beat those guys just about every time they tried, and the one time they did manage to occupy Santa Fe -- that went so very well for them, didn't it? :P

ETA: this history explains very well where NM's hostility to TX came from. But AZ territory was always confederate in their hearts. It was you guys who stood between them ....

Love, C.

[azurelunatic]

I would like to complain about some of the citizens of my country.

[pperiwinkle.livejournal.com]

I am weak, thus context.

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

Former Mexico.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

*headdesk*

Serves me right for mentally switching "independent" for the adjective actually used in the question.

[erikagillian.livejournal.com]

Really Big Rez.

[glorin.livejournal.com]

Wow. People have some weird ideas about New Mexico, where I have live almost all of my life, in several disparate parts. I guess there is some brilliant joke I am not getting, here.

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

James apparently ran into yet another person (American) who doesn't know New Mexico is a state, and we're all snarking about it.

When I worked for an insurance company that merged with the companies in several other states, I discovered easily 30% of my coworkers didn't know if New Mexico was a state or not. "That's... part of Mexico, right?" was a common refrain.

[k.c. shaw (from livejournal.com)]

I used to work with a woman who thought New Mexico was another name for Mexico. She didn't realize it was a state. When I told her, she looked utterly flummoxed, as though she was going to have to rearrange all her thoughts around this new New Mexico shaped fact.

[glorin.livejournal.com]

Thank you Mimi. I get the "New Mexico is a state?" joke. _New Mexico_ magazine has a feature "one of our fifty is missing ..." with examples of this. My home is deeply flawed and awesome in some ways. I can't imagine moving.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

This thread prompted me to ask my daughter what New Mexico was. She was mildly incredulous when I told her that her response put her ahead of a considerable fraction of adults in geographical knowledge. She explained that there were a lot of maps in her first-grade classroom.

[vass]

Mornington Crescent.

[chatworthy.livejournal.com]

New Mexico

[ice-hesitant.livejournal.com]

Surely, East California.

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

"USA National Park Scenery Storage Lots #1-4753"

Dave, and no, don't call it Surely