Re: Denali.
Posted by Elle
on 9/1/2015, 2:25 pm, in reply to "
Denali. "
My first impression was that Obama was looking for another notch on his belt, something else to add to his tenure record. Why change the name of a place that has been called by that name for probably all of our lives? Researching a little further, the objections are coming from Ohio..because McKinley was from Ohio. Alaskans have been calling Denali or words that have the same meaning and apparently approve of the change. If the objections were due to confusion in renaming the place..I might agree because I'm not a fan of gratuitous name changing. The Interboro will always be the Interboro Parkway in my mind, it's name to Jackie Robinson Parkway doesn't come to mind when I refer to that stretch. In this scenario, Ohioans don't get a vote, it's not in their state.
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