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Since America's namesake Amerigo Vespucci was an immigrant, what should the United States of America be renamed to? (no wrong answers)

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Since America's namesake Amerigo Vespucci was an immigrant, what should the United States of America be renamed to? (no wrong answers)

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Whatever the Cherokee word for “stolen land” is.
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  Or, you know, the thousands of other languages that existed.
  
  Sorry, distilling everything indigenous down to the Cherokee is a pet peeve of mine.
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    https://indigamerica.blogspot.com/

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