User blog comment:Nyssa sylvatica/Now about my editing.../@comment-74.141.161.168-20100418222219

Thank you for your input, now here's my take.

Part of what draws me to alternate history, among many other more appealing possible outcomes, is that they could have spent more time, thought originality and creativity on naming places. Places such as "Indiana" (means "land of the Indians,") West Virginia (Started out as the state of "Kanawha," but the new state's leaders were too proud of their Virginian heritage albeit oblivious to the fact that the Old Dominion state actually juts west of the mountaineer state,) any other place with NSEW or "New" in its name to differentiate it from the old, Mississippi (named for a river that forms it's western border, starts in Minnesota and ends in Louisiana,) other states and provinces named for large bodies of water bordering or going through several states and provinces ("Ohio," "Michigan," "Ontario" etc,) city names used by the largest city of multiple states, and other such places.

...and the USA, which has been referred to as "America" since British imperialists started monopolizing that name in the 18th century.