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Angry Frog
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The United States of pillaged lands.
Rename the USA to:: 4/25/2016 21:36:09


DomCobb
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What are we going to have, different names for different viewpoints
Radical Conservatives: Holy Freedomland
Moderate Conservatives: United States of Capitalism
Centrists: United States of Fierce Political Thought
Moderate Liberals: United States of Progress
Socialists: United States of Accursed Capitalism
Rename the USA to:: 4/25/2016 21:40:28


GeneralPE
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We are the only group of United States in the Americas, thus, the United States of America. We are of America. Also, wtf is Fredon?
Rename the USA to:: 4/25/2016 21:44:50


Darth Darth Binks
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Rather than changing our name to the "United States of Fredon," it would make more sense to simply say "Fredon," because Fredon is not a place, yet. We cannot be of Fredon if Fredon does not exist.
Rename the USA to:: 4/25/2016 21:45:57


Empire of Kilos
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I don't care what the USA is named, because I live in the Confederate State of Florida.
Rename the USA to:: 4/25/2016 21:51:21


Waco Leader
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mussst...... rssist... urj...... to.. beat... politcal coreect..... ness....... out... of..... you.....!!
Rename the USA to:: 4/25/2016 21:55:46


Ox
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We are the only group of United States in the Americas

>Brazil
Rename the USA to:: 4/25/2016 22:04:13


Major General Smedley Butler
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> Mexico
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Ox
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(and probably a few others!)
Rename the USA to:: 4/25/2016 22:27:28


GeneralPE
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Since nobody answered, I'll repost:

WHY ARE WE USING FREDON?

Is it supposed to be like freedom? Or does it just sound good?
Rename the USA to:: 4/25/2016 22:30:33


knyte
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Derived from Fredonia, mangled by 2pac not really knowing the background and trying to just incite forum stupidity
Rename the USA to:: 4/25/2016 22:31:53


Angry Koala
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Tupacito is back!
Rename the USA to:: 4/25/2016 22:36:49


Benjamin628 
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The name "The United States of America", using conventional logic, does not imply to be the only nation in (North) America, or one thereof that has states and is united. I see no reason to change the name which was adopted over 200 years ago.
Rename the USA to:: 4/25/2016 22:39:47


Angry Koala
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"The United States of America", using conventional logic, does not imply to be the only nation in (North) America,"

I think I read somewhere at the very beginning the US was meant to encompass all of America, so at the beginning it was meant to be only one nation all over America.
Rename the USA to:: 4/25/2016 22:44:31


GeneralPE
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To respond to the Mexico and Brazil people: we were the only one when we were founded. They just copied us.
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[RE] I hate this game
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THE AMERICAN EMPIRE!!!!
Rename the USA to:: 4/25/2016 23:25:51


♤Prince Riku Lyonheart♤
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The Divided States of Secular Westernisation.
Rename the USA to:: 4/26/2016 00:02:28


Major General Smedley Butler
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Knyte, you never present arguments against anything, you just act as if everyone around you is ignorant and childish while yourself refusing to argue with logic.

No I am not referring to the Fredonian revolt in Texas by Anglo settlers trying to secede, I am referring to the initial use of the term by US folk referring to the US as Fredon instead of America.

From 1803

Proposal to the American literati, and to all the citizens of the United States, to employ the following names and epithets for the country and nation to which they belong; which, at the distance of 27 years from the declaration and of 20 years from the acknowledgment of their independence, are to this day destitute of proper geographical and political denominations, whereby they may be aptly distinguished from the other regions and peoples of the earth:

Fredon, the aggregate noun for the whole territory of the United States.

Fredonia, a noun of same import, for rhetorical and poetical use.

Fredonian, a sonorous name for 'a citizen of the United States'.

Frede, a short and colloquial name for 'a citizen of the United States'.

Fredish, an adjective to denote the relations and concerns of the United States

Example. Fredon is probably better supplied with the materials of her own history than Britain, France, or any country in the world, and the reason is obvious, for the attention of the Fredonians was much sooner directed, after their settlement, to the collection and preservations of their facts and records than that of the Dutch and Irish. Hence it will happen that the events of Fredish history will be more minutely known and better understood than those of Russian, Turkish, or Arabic. And thereby the time will be noted carefully when a native of this land, on being asked who he is and whence he came, began to answer in one word that he is a Frede, instead of using the tedious circumlocution that he was "a citizen of the United States of America." And in the like manner notice will be taken of the association of Fredonia and Macedonia and Caledonia as a word equally potent and melodious in sound.


Edited 4/26/2016 00:03:05
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Imperator
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America is way too diverse to peg under single name. For example:

15.2% of americans are germans
10.8% of americans are irish
8.7% of americans are english
7.2% of americans are "american"
5.6% of americans are italian
4.0% of americans are french
3.2% of americans are polish
1.7% of americans are scottish
1.6% of americans are dutch
1.6% of americans are norwegian
1.4% or americans are swedish

And that's just the white people. More americans:

15% are Hispanic and latino
13% are some kind of black people
6% are asians
3% are some kind of middle eastern
2% are jewish

Thus, the official name of america doesn't attempt to describe all these people generically with one term as most countries do (russia, armenia, britain, france, mexico, etc), but rather is a pretty general description of our government:

"The United States of America"

"The United States" = a whole bunch of states, america is not unitary

"of America" = Pertaining to "America". This doesn't imply that we are the only nation in america, but rather that we are a nation that exists in america.

Edited 4/26/2016 00:10:31
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Ox
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1.7% of America are evil defectors ;)
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