Date: 2013-06-29 03:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nancylebov.livejournal.com
Lower Corte.

Date: 2013-06-29 07:00 pm (UTC)
kiya: (bow to the shiny)
From: [personal profile] kiya
Well played.

Date: 2013-06-30 01:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tekalynn.livejournal.com
I raise my glass to you.

Date: 2013-06-29 03:46 pm (UTC)
dsrtao: (glasseschange)
From: [personal profile] 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.

Date: 2013-06-29 03:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2013-06-29 03:53 pm (UTC)
dsrtao: (glasseschange)
From: [personal profile] dsrtao
Is it your contention, sir, that they are also editing my memory?

...that would explain a lot.

Date: 2013-06-29 03:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] badger.livejournal.com
I'll go with Carcosa.

Date: 2013-06-29 04:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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."

Date: 2013-06-29 04:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] peter-erwin.livejournal.com
The second choice would enable awesome addresses like:

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

Date: 2013-06-29 05:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pickledginger.livejournal.com
Worth it just for that, really.

Date: 2013-06-29 04:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stevendj.livejournal.com
West Nunavut.

Date: 2013-06-29 06:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] keithmm.livejournal.com
South Nunavut. West Nunavut is already reserved for Alaska when we get around to reorganizing it.

Date: 2013-06-29 06:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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).

Date: 2013-06-29 07:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2013-06-30 07:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2013-07-01 12:24 am (UTC)

Date: 2013-06-29 05:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com
Catsylvania.

Date: 2013-06-30 03:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrteufel.livejournal.com
Catatonia.
Catspaw.
Catalan.

Date: 2013-06-29 05:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pickledginger.livejournal.com
Nuevo Dust Bowl

Date: 2013-06-29 06:25 pm (UTC)
chomiji: Cartoon of chomiji in the style of the Powerpuff Girls (Default)
From: [personal profile] chomiji

*plays sad trombone*

Date: 2013-06-29 06:45 pm (UTC)
julesjones: (Default)
From: [personal profile] 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"

Date: 2013-06-30 03:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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."

Date: 2013-06-29 06:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nelc.livejournal.com
North Mexico? Not Mexican At All?

Date: 2013-06-29 08:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] movingfinger.livejournal.com
Land of Enchantment. It would save a lot of money.

Date: 2013-07-03 09:27 pm (UTC)
ext_63737: Posing at Zeusaphone concert, 2008 (Default)
From: [identity profile] beamjockey.livejournal.com
With added nickname, "New Mexico."

Or maybe "Old New Mexico."

Date: 2013-06-29 08:22 pm (UTC)
ext_13461: Foxes Frolicing (Default)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2013-06-29 10:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elegantelbow.livejournal.com
alas, poor New Mexico
so far from heaven
so close to Texas

Date: 2013-06-29 10:32 pm (UTC)
ext_13461: Foxes Frolicing (Default)
From: [identity profile] 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.
Edited Date: 2013-06-29 10:33 pm (UTC)

Date: 2013-07-05 09:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2013-07-05 10:27 pm (UTC)
ext_13461: Foxes Frolicing (Default)
From: [identity profile] 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.
Edited Date: 2013-07-05 10:28 pm (UTC)

Date: 2013-06-29 10:36 pm (UTC)
azurelunatic: Vivid pink Alaskan wild rose. (Default)
From: [personal profile] azurelunatic
I would like to complain about some of the citizens of my country.

Date: 2013-06-29 11:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pperiwinkle.livejournal.com
I am weak, thus context.

Date: 2013-06-30 12:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bunsen-h.livejournal.com
Former Mexico.

Date: 2013-06-30 01:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tekalynn.livejournal.com
*headdesk*

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

Date: 2013-06-30 03:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erikagillian.livejournal.com
Really Big Rez.

Date: 2013-06-30 04:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2013-06-30 09:36 am (UTC)
ext_3718: (Default)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2013-06-30 01:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2013-07-01 05:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2013-07-01 04:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2013-06-30 02:08 pm (UTC)
vass: Small turtle with green leaf in its mouth (Default)
From: [personal profile] vass
Mornington Crescent.

Date: 2013-06-30 09:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chatworthy.livejournal.com
New Mexico

Date: 2013-07-01 04:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ice-hesitant.livejournal.com
Surely, East California.

Date: 2013-08-09 12:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dbdatvic.livejournal.com
"USA National Park Scenery Storage Lots #1-4753"

Dave, and no, don't call it Surely

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