A Democrat (of all things)

Down in the Magnolia State, wants to rename the "Gulf of Mexico", "The Gulf of America".

If this is a sort of nationalist feint, then it falls flat as Mexico is still very much a part of the North American Continent.

Still, Dr. Achmed Sukarno, Dictator of Indonesia once proclaimed that in the year 1966 Jakarta would build a blue water navy and "forcibly" change the name of the "Indian Ocean" to the "Indonesian Ocean".

And then there is Benito Mussolini would spent millions of lira in the lead up to World War II trying to convince the Italians that the blue waters of the Mediterranean was "Mare Nostrum" (literally "Our Sea").

My point when things go wrong, when the hungry riot, when the fires of nationalism start to flicker and dim, there is always a reactionary out there who thinks all can be solved by wantonly renaming stuff on a map.