[Mouton]

Here is the genesis of the whole issue: Rachel Carson Middleschool. I guess George Washington or Thomas Jefferson was not available.

[ConservativeInPA]

I was thinking on similar lines. You know there is a severe leftist problem when you have a name like that.

[MortMan]

Rachel flat-out ran a better campaign than George or Tom, I guess.

[EEGator]

Is that the bulldozer chick in Israel?

[DoodleBob]

Thanks...Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose influential book Silent Spring (1962) and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.

[vivenne]

It probably was named one of those but the changed the name because they were racists.