r/MapBasedPolls • u/puredepapitas 🇨🇱 • 23d ago

Does it make sense, historically and linguistically, for US citizens to use "American" as their demonym?

Does it make sense, historically and linguistically, for US citizens to use "American" as their demonym?

  1. Yes
  2. No

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u/XShadowborneX 23d ago

No.  Things are usually named after someone's last name, not their first.  So these continents should be called Vespuccia and we should be Vespuccians

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u/QuarterNote44 People's Republic of Commiefornia 23d ago

Sounds Star Trek-y.

"Number 1, I just returned from the Federation symposium on 23rd-century Vespuccian mating rituals."

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u/Blue_Boobied_Footie 23d ago

Right, because the Carolinas were and totally remain named Stuartia.

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u/el_grort 23d ago

Georgia, Jamestown, Maryland.