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Originally Posted by :-D
Honestly, it is probably the state name alone that accounts for most of these. People are pretty stupid, especially some of our fellow Americans.
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That's precisely what it is. People see New
Mexico and just read (or hear)
México, despite it being named way back when México was still called
Nuevo España (New Spain). NM was named for the puebloans living there, who the Spanish though were rich like the Méxica (Aztec) tribes.