To my knowledge (that is, a couple YouTube videos on the topic, this could be outdated/false information), there are some people who aren't happy that the U.S. names itself after the continent of America (implying that they have a right to all of America, manifest destiny to the max). Whether that is true or not, naming stuff is always fun, so what is a good name that is representative of what the U.S. is?

My personal suggestions:

  • The Liberty States
  • since Argentina is the only country named after an element (silver), why not another? Perhaps the U.S. could be named after gold, after the Gold Rush which I think was a big thing? That or an element that can be red, white, and blue. Speaking of...
  • The Republic of Red, White, and Blue

Please assume that stale carrot man isn't in office and that the U.S. is currently being a reasonable and humane country that actually stands for democracy, liberty, and freedom.

edit: Some people really want to make it about dry orange tomato man, which is not the point of this exercise. Also note that, yes, you could argue that the U.S. was always an imperialist power that replaced democratic leaders with dictators that were favourable to American interests, and that it certainly wasn't very nice to the native peoples.

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[–] 39 points 9 months ago (1 child)

"The Country Between Canada and Mexico Formly Known as the United States of America."

CBCMFKUSA for short.

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  • [–] 38 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Perhaps the U.S. could be named after gold

    The United States of Aumerica

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago

    Country McCountryface

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  • [–] 29 points 9 months ago

    Eminem had it right. The Divided States of Embarrassment.

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    I think the US naming themselves after America isn't really any different from the European Union naming itself after Europe.

    It's "United States OF America", not "United States that are America". It's a bunch of united states that exist in America, not the states that make up America.

    Please assume that stale carrot man isn't in office and that the U.S. is currently being a reasonable and humane country that actually stands for democracy, liberty, and freedom.

    It's not like the US was a leader in those things before Trump. He didn't invent the issues, he just made them more visible. The US has always overthrown democratically elected governments to install dictators, and people have complained about its own election system for ages. There's a lack of consumer and labor protections, and the fact you only have two right-wing parties and anything left of center is considered extremist opinions doesn't help at all. It's honestly hard to imagine the US actually standing for democracy, liberty, and freedom, beyond empty propaganda.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    If they stopped calling themselves "Americans", it'd be fine, but they call themselves as if they owned 2 continents (and they behave that way too). A renaming would be very much in order. Liberteria, The States, Trumpia, Costa to Costa, Burgerland, whatever.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    What's funny is the old usage of American was a slur to denote people who came from the New World from old money and "classical" tradition. Now people like you are mad that it's now being embraced as an identity. Some folks can never be happy and want to share.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    That old usage is still very much still in use in the UK. It's usually used to signify uncouth and crass behaviour with being loud and obnoxious.

    Not every USian is, but those that follow those traits are usually USian.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Europeans saw us that way. If it ever was a 'bad' thing, it was because of their elitism. It was a matter of time the reclaiming of our dignity and our validity. Many Americans (continent) did so during their independence efforts (mostly 18th and 19th century). I found this:

    In linguistics, reappropriation, reclamation, or resignification is the cultural process by which a group reclaims words or artifacts that were previously used in a way disparaging of that group. It is a specific form of a semantic change (i.e., change in a word's meaning). Linguistic reclamation can have wider implications in the fields of discourse and has been described in terms of personal or sociopolitical empowerment. (Wikipedia)

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Several different names for the 4 different countries it should split into.

    Cascadia (obviously) - in the west border line is the Rockies. Mississippi - all the flat corn states and those whose purpose comes from the river. Basically all the land between the Rockies and the Appalachians, but not including the great lakes states.
    Southern states - all those East of the Appalachians but South of Virginia including Florida.
    Northern states - all those North of Virginia and may include the lake states too but...

    The lake states might just join Canada or go independent and call themselves Iroquois or something..

    Alaska is Canadian, as it should be. Texas is Mexican (again), as it should be. Hawaii is now independent and tied to New Zealand, as it should be.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    Even without Trump in office it still could not be reasonably called the liberty states

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    I.C.E.land.

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    [–] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Everything is bigger in the USA. So, Bigland

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Trumpstein Island

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Go back to the original European name - Vinland/Vineland/Wineland. Though that might have been in Canada, technically.

    Better yet, find some pre-Columbian name for the land that was used by the actual locals. I'm sure there's plenty of alternatives, and some of the most beautiful state names in the US came about that way. Maybe some Native American name for the Mississippi river could be a good starting point.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    New India /s

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    North American Union.

    Setup like the European Union with each state promoted to country status.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    United States of Britain or USB for short

    /j

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Non United States of America

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I propose Hell Yeah Brother! as the name.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    South Canada?

    North Mexico?

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    Its still the USA. Let's just vote for a government that works for us and not try to murder us.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Strong Badia. There's probably lots of chocolate.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    It kind of bothers me that it's called America in shorthand when the entire 2-continents are ALSO called America.

    I like the names that people have for smaller sections of it, e.g Arcadia which i think means Washington and Oregon state? And New England. I guess nobody wants their country to be called 'new oldcountry,' though 😝

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It kind of bothers me that it's called America

    It is not called "America", this is just what USians like everyone to call it.

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    And your being a xenophobic piece of shit not respecting what a country wants to be called.

    I don't give a flying fuck what USians want to be called.

    It is like one country claimed name "Earth" and insisted on them to be called Earthlings. America is a continent and people from Canada or Mexico are as American as people from USA., although I would understand they may not necessarily want to be associated with this name at present.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Name it whatever. An alarming number of Amerikkkans can’t read anyway

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    Could go all KFC and just make the full offical name be "USA".

    I'd like something original. Something that captures the spirit of the country. Something like "Glorificia" maybe.
    "♫ I'm proud to be a Glorifican! Where at least I know I'm freeee ♫"

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    The continent is North America. The Americas are both the north and south continents. As a Canadian, I don't give a rats ass. Just because Trump has the comprehension of a 3 year old we do t have to change things to make him feel comfortable. The are the United States of America, not the country of America. That's just short form because it's a mouthful otherwise.

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    Something that reflects its citizens, its spirit? Ignorantia? Protectionismia? Healtcarecrisia? Lackofeducationia? Dumbland?

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    United States of Israel Divided States of America United States of Terrorism United States of Nazism

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    The US can never be "a reasonable and humane country that actually stands for democracy, liberty, and freedom", since it is an empire built with the blood of stolen people on stolen land.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Eh.. If we were generally a kind and prosperous nation, with healthcare, a strong working class, free education, and a decent system of reparations to drive equity, that whole stolen land thing would probably be overlooked.

    And we'd all be riding free unicorns.

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    NeoneoAssyria

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Epstein island, just because they have tot open up the epstein files

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Why not Columbia?

    No, no Colombia (🇨🇴)!

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    The official name for Mexico is the United Mexican States, a similar name to the United States of America but focused on the region of Mexico, the area which has Mexico City and the State of Mexico.

    The problem with applying this to the USA is that, unlike Mexico, the USA was a collection of various colonies with different political and religious traditions coming together rather than the more unified viceroyality of Mexico.

    Using words like Atlantic or Piedmont wouldn't work well as the words described the colonies as is but the nation was partially rebelling to be able to settle lands on the other side of Appalachian Mountains.

    Columbia might work as the word was used as a by label for the USA, so the United States of Columbia. This would likely cause Gran Colombia to choose a different name for their country.

    Outside of Columbia, I can't think of a name which would act as a label in which all colonies would agree.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    The Patriotic Republic of Democratic Free Republicanistan.

    Of course it won’t be democratic, or free, and the patriotism is punitively mandatory.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 9 months ago

    Because I already have enough U.S. politics from the internet...

    The small vibrating egg does sound way more interesting though, let's talk about that instead. What makes it vibrate? How is it so small? What will happen to the egg after the vibrations? How many varieties are there??

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I'd want the whole thing, but I'll settle for "This place is not a place of honor"

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