North Dakotans can't move their state to warmer climes, but some hope a proposal to change its name will alter many people's frosty image of the state. The Greater North Dakota Association, the state's chamber of commerce, is backing a proposal to cut the state's name to "Dakota." Supporters insist the plan would help alter the state's image as a frigid, treeless prairie. [...] Some state officials worry the plan would subject North Dakota to national ridicule - which is what happened in 1989, the last time a name change was proposed.
Oh, yeah, that'll be effective, won't it? Knocking the word "north" out of the name of the state would immediately make me think that it was hilly and warm, right? That whole thing about being on the Canadian border and having winters that start early and end late would just be knocked right out of my head.
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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