From: robertaw@drizzle.com
In article ,
Paul S Person wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:07:06 -0800, Bobbie Sellers
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >On 12/15/25 08:16, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> >> Bobbie Sellers writes:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 12/14/25 12:30, Cryptoengineer wrote:
> >>>> On 12/14/2025 12:39 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 12/12/25 21:48, The Horny Goat wrote:
> >>>>>> On Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:51:17 +0000, Graham
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 13/11/2025 21:38, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Looks like Google Maps disagrees with you. Google switched the
> >>>>>>>> name of
> >>>>>>>> the Gulf to Gulf Of America right when President Trump ordered all
> >>>>>>>> federal agencies to change the name.If you're in America
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> If you're in America.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Elsewhere it's Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America).
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>> Given how woke the politicians in Ottawa have been in recent years I'm
> >>>>>> astonished there have been no move to rename Hudson's Bay
> >>>>>
> >>>>> In California it is still the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf of North
> >>>>> America will be
> >>>>> created in the coming inundation maybe 100 years or more away. That
> >>>>> will be the time of the Great Bay of California as well. The islands
> >>>>> of San Francisco
> >>>>> will still be a template for civilizations to come. But eventually
> >>>>> they to will
> >>>>> disappear except in oral tradition that there was once a great city
> >>>>> where
> >>>>> all people who honored all other people were honored.
> >>>>
> >>>> Surely the Gulf of California should now be rename "Gulf of Mexico" now,
> >>>> since 100% of its coastline is Mexican :-).
> >>>>
> >>>> pt
> >>>
> >>> We do not yet have a Gulf of California
> >>
> >> Check the name of the bay immediately east of Baja California.
> >>
> >
> > And that is the business of Mexico not of the USA. It is not in California
> >and they, the government of Mexico can call it whatever they like.
>
> It was named after the California that Mexico once owned. Before the
> USA took it over.
>
> So it has historical associations. As does, of course, "Gulf of
> Mexico". A lot of the coastline currently part of the USA used to be
> part of Mexico. Or at least of Spain, of which Mexico was a
> possession.
Actually ALL of it was a Spanish possession (Florida and Louisiana were
both Spanish possessions from 1783 to whenever Spain transferred
Louisiana back to France.
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