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So, of course, it makes sense that someone somewhere would try this – renaming the “Gulf of Mexico,” what else – the “Gulf of America.”
That’s exactly what Mississippi state Rep. D. Stephen Holland, a Democrat, is proposing.
According to a bill he introduced in the Mississippi Legislature, as of July 1, 2012, H.B. 150 is an act to provide that for all official purposes within the state of Mississippi, the body of water located directly South of Hancock, Harrison and Jackson counties shall be known as the ‘Gulf of America’; and for related purposes.” (Here’s the pdf of the bill.)
The bill is now before the Marine Resources Committee and is expected to get a hearing. It was referred to the committee Tuesday.
Holland’s office could not be reached for comment.
Holland, a former aide to late-Rep. Jamie Whitten (D) and Sen. Thad Cochran (R), appears to be a brash, blunt pol. (See videos here and here.)
The news was first reported by the BestofNewOrleans.com website.
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It's about time. Mexico is nothing but drug cartels.
thats not very nice and how do you know that....have you lived there? is your spouse from there? do you visit there often? I dont think you should talk out your neck when you really dont have any idea.
Fair and Balanced 78
You forgot kidnappers, bought and paid for politicians, crooked cops, and very toxic pollution.
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Everything I saw was straight up nasty.
One more reason to vote ALL of these morons out come November.
Or maybe they could work on that important stuff the media keeps asking them about, ya know the jobs and stuff? Yea know when we will finally leave Afghanistan? Just a thought.
This is his jobs plan. First you have a long term job for the committee that has to decide where the gulf of America ends and the gulf of Mexico begins since the rest of the bordering states and Mexico aren't renaming their parts. Then all the cartographers in the world have to make new maps of the region. Which will then have to be bought by all the schools in the world. And kids who are incapable of finding it now will have to find two parts of it. See many more people working.
You mean that the reason we're still in Afghanistan is that the Mississippi legislature has not voted for us to pull out yet?
Wow, you're even smarter than Mr. Holland, Red dead.
This is on the same level as renaming Squaw Peak 'Native American Woman Mountain' or whatever they changed the name to. Most places were named for a reason, not to be derogatory. Really, the only people to see 'racism' in these names are racist themselves. As far as the Gulf of Mexico goes, it's as much theirs as ours, let it be.
Guess that explains why so many places in the rural South were named N***er Den Creek, N***er Hollow, N***er Ridge, etc., eh?
Is Mexico going to cry baby about this?
I dont think so...Mexico will still call it EL GOLFO DE MEXICO...
The Democrat house majority leader, Holland's mentor, retired last year and for the first time since Reconstruction the MS House is controlled by the Republicians. All this must have caused Democrat Representative Holland to go off his nut. :)
Can you say stupidest thing I have ever heard!!! Racist.....maybe.....I have lived in Mississippi for almost 30 years and our government does some of the stupidest stuff.
Can't we focus on more important things and shouldn't it be "Gulf of the Americas"?
My goodness. This makes now sense..
Mississippi has the second sallest Gulf shoreline out of all the states! If anything Louisiana should invade Mississippi and take that shoreline for their own. Then Mississippi can shut up.
Go rename your river, dummies!
WELL IT LOOKS LIKE WE DONT HAVE ENOUGH FN IDIOTS IN AMERICA lets just rename every thing that was named before most of us were born to something like AMERICA These people need to be fired from there job for stupid ideals we are in trouble with Money and other issues this is stupid.. O well when the end is coming we will all know like Rome Fell so will we.....
As King Missile once said, "America is named after a guy who was never even here but put his name on it, because he could...because we're jerks!"
It was named by the first guy that made the map after the guy who didn't know where he was going and didn't know where he was when he got there and did it with borrowed money told him about it. He like any good businessman named it after himself.
I do not think I know a Mr. Gulf.
You don't? He started a really BIG oil company. He was good friends with Mr. Exxon and Mr. Chevron.
Anyone that is always trying to be patriotic is trying to distract stupid people from other, more important things. Like what is really going on in America. You want real patriotism, then lets start taking back America, as we are now owned by Saudi Arabia and China. ALWAYS be suspicious of someone that throws the patriotic card. That's how Hitler took power. If you where against Hitler you where anti-German. So everyone didn't want to be labeled anti-German, so he took over.
That particular area is called the Mississippi Sound. Who the hell asked him to do this @!$%#? I know I didn't.
Everyone I know just call it the Gulf or Gulf Coast.
This just makes me dislike the state I live in more.
I feel sorry for the poor folks of Mississippi no jobs poor education system leads to idoit elected officals. Man I can't wait to eat american gulf shrimp. LOL Now exactly where are the boundries on the new gulf ?
They should be focusing more attention on the fact that we owe so much money we'll have to sell the country just to pay the debts, not stupid crap like this.
If politicians have so little to do that they need to start renaming things, perhaps they aren't really needed at all.
This is the kind of BS that I thought only Republicans did!
Well, having already solved all the world's problems, sooner or later we need to tackle issues such as this. Kudos to the Democrat from Mississippi. He is not afraid to take on the tough, controversial issues.
Only in America !!!, only in America, America is a country, because in the rest of the countries America is a continent and this country is known as The United States of America.
So regardless of how the Mexicans would feel about such change, the gulf then would be named after the entire continent......
That dummy must have nothing to do. What a waste of taxpayer money and time.
Hehe. This is pretty funny. The US Navy is already irritating the hell out of Iran by calling the Persian Gulf the "Arabian Gulf."
So what's next. "New America" for New Mexico?
Stupid is as Stupid does! Plenty of that going around, Democrat or Republican!