What if every state had to use a different name?

[DPKdebator]

What if every state in the U.S. had to have its name changed? Try to give a short explanation for the name.

I'll start:
Massachusetts = Plymouth (old colony)
Rhode Island = Providence [Plantations] (second part of the state's full name)
Connecticut = New Haven (old colony)
Vermont = Champlain (the lake)
New Hampshire = Merrimack (the Merrimack River flows through major population centers)
Maine = New Ireland (abortive colony the British tried to start during the Revolution and War of 1812)
New York = New Amsterdam (former name under Dutch rule)

[(Still) muted by Kalwejt until March 31]

Michigan: Ford
Ohio: Columbus
California: Baja Mexico
Texas: Houston
Tennessee: Jackson (maybe Sevier)

[JustinTimeCuber]

Missouri - Ozark

[Goldwater]

Nevada - East California

[Mr. Smith]

Utah- South Deseret
Idaho - North Deseret

[Cashew]

Michigan: Ford
Ohio: Columbus
California: Baja Alta Mexico
Texas: Houston
Tennessee: Jackson (maybe Sevier)

California: Fremont

Edit: I was not thinking about Atlasia when I wrote that, just remembered this moment.

[Figueira]

The world doesn't need more directional names (North _______, East _______, etc.).

[Goldwater]

The world doesn't need more directional names (North _______, East _______, etc.).

Mine was a joke, in case you couldn't tell.

[Lambsbread]

Pennsylvania: Franklin

[Dr. Arch]

Wisconsin: Menominee

[RFayette]

Indiana:  Wabash
Illinois:  Lincoln
Pennsylvania:  Keystone
West Virginia:  Appalachia

[bagelman]

Ohio: Cuyahoga

[Confused Democrat]

Florida: Gatoria

[Crumpets]

For Washington:
- Cascadia (Cascades)
- Salisha (general name for many related native groups centered on the state)
- Tahoma (name for Mount Rainier in several native languages)
- Tookwhehlteed (Lushootseed word for "a large open space," and the name of one of the villages was formerly located in what is now Seattle, thus combining both urban and rural elements - also fun to hear people try to pronounce)
- Wimahl (Chinook word for the Columbia River)
- Nch’i-Wàna (Sahaptin word for the Columbia River, another one I'd like to hear people try to say casually)
- x̌ʷə́lč (Lushootseed word for Puget Sound and surrounding waterways, and the one I would most want to hear people try to say)

[Mr. Smith]

South Dakota - Sioux
North Dakota - Dakota
North Carolina - Roanoke
South Carolina - Jackson
Virginia - Jacobia
New York - New Netherlands
Missouri - Zion
Nevada - Carson
Wyoming - Bridger
Iowa -Cornucopia
New Mexico - Navajo
California - Pacifica
Maryland - Chesapeake
Tennessee - Cumberland
Pennsylvania - Allegheny
Oregon - Tillamook
Minnesota - New Scandinavia

[Figueira]

For Washington:
- Cascadia (Cascades)
- Salisha (general name for many related native groups centered on the state)
- Tahoma (name for Mount Rainier in several native languages)
- Tookwhehlteed (Lushootseed word for "a large open space," and the name of one of the villages was formerly located in what is now Seattle, thus combining both urban and rural elements - also fun to hear people try to pronounce)
- Wimahl (Chinook word for the Columbia River)
- Nch’i-Wàna (Sahaptin word for the Columbia River, another one I'd like to hear people try to say casually)
- x̌ʷə́lč (Lushootseed word for Puget Sound and surrounding waterways, and the one I would most want to hear people try to say)

The last option is clearly the best. We can call it Xwelc if we're lazy. Postal abbreviation XW.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Virginia: Promiseland
New york: Hell

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

New Hampshire: New Femshire, East Vermont, Hassanshire, New Hampsheen, Kuster

Will you ever shut up?

[Pessimistic Antineutrino]

New Jersey - Lenape (also works for Delaware)
West Virginia - Kanawha
Oklahoma - Sequoyah