“ there is a formal process in the United States for renaming places, and that process is taken seriously.”
Really? Then who changed Mount McKinley to Denali? No serious person wanted that change. Who renamed all the military bases? No serious person wanted that. Every one of those was DEI BS and should be changed back to their traditional names.
Should they have “naming rights” to sell like an NFL stadium?
“Then who changed Mount McKinley to Denali?”
Denali is what the locals call it as it is a native name coming from the five tribes. And giving it a new name in Washington D.C. is not going to change what they call it. Wase of money and paper.
Let’s take Georgia. It was named after a king in England who approved the first charter. Why not call it Hernando’s place. He’s the guy who found it originally. In their native tongue, Georgians call themselves the Kartveli and their country Sakartvelo. What general or politician should the name be changed to? After all, McKinley never went to Alaska.
wy69
DING DING DING a winner
+1000.
Murkowski had McKinley renamed to Denali for politics...turns out none of the Eskimos tribes had called it that - but they all had different names for it....
Greenfield wrote a good article on it.
Did you read the article, attached in its entirety so you didn’t even have to click a link? According to the article Alaska had been trying to get the name changed back to Denali since 1975. And Americans were about evenly split on renaming military bases named after confederates.