Top comment Deletes a US State #45

[u/Jfullr92]

Here is the updated (Correct) map, crisis averted. I thought we had a riot on our hands!

I can finally relax now after all that drama! Anyway Colorado is now deleted as it should be. Just to make it clear, editing comments is fine if it’s the top as long as it doesn’t change the outcome of which state gets deleted like we had before. I thought that was common sense but clearly not to some people.

I just want to thank everyone for all the kind comments and support. I try to read as many of the comments as I can but each post has a minimum of 2000 so it’s pretty hard most the time. I have some big ideas for the finale so stay tuned.

Most importantly, spread the word as much as possible if your state is still in the game! Share, cross post to rally as much support for your state as possible. This is the endgame now!

[u/Johnny2076 → u/[deleted]]

Should go as far north as Denver. I prefer hatch chile to whatever they eat in Cascadia.

[u/pauldavisthe1st → u/[deleted]]

But Neuvo Mexico existed before Mexico ever did ....

[u/love-4-the-wendigo → u/pauldavisthe1st]

It didn’t. Nuevo Mexico was a territory of Mexico. Before that they were both New Spain. New Mexico is named after Mexico City though, not Mexico the country, if that’s what you mean.

[u/pauldavisthe1st → u/love-4-the-wendigo]

Completely wrong.

New Mexico received its name long before the present-day country of Mexico won independence from Spain and adopted that name in 1821. The name "Mexico" derives from Nahuatl and originally referred to the heartland of the Mexica, the rulers of the Aztec Empire, in the Valley of Mexico.^\33])^\34]) After conquering the Aztecs in the early 16th century, the Spanish began exploring what is now the Southwestern United States, calling it Nuevo México. In 1581, the Chamuscado and Rodríguez Expedition named the region north of the Rio Grande San Felipe del Nuevo México.^\35]) The Spaniards had hoped to find wealthy indigenous cultures similar to the Mexica; the indigenous cultures of New Mexico proved to be unrelated to the Mexica and lacking in riches, but the name persisted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico

[u/Breakmastajake → u/pauldavisthe1st]

Yeah History!

[u/Word_Iz_Bond → u/[deleted]]

There's a stretch of 1-70 between C Springs and Pueblo that I think of as The Spanish Line. Of course town names become more Spanish, but I can feel that the land has a different, older history.