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    Is it just me or did the apply a gradient to Maine to indicate being split between two colors, but then didn’t do the same for South Dakota or Michigan despite also being split between two categories?

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    This map makes zero sense. I need to see the data to understand I think. I’m unfamiliar with the apparently majority of Hawaiian cities with the name “Hawaiian” in them? In fact, there isn’t a single one to my knowledge.

    And while Kansas City and Souix City or NYC all have city in the name, I’m scrolling around Georgia for instance, and there isn’t a single “______ City” in the state that I can see.

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      Hawaiian should be it’s own category/color, like Spanish. It makes more sense since there’s far more naive Hawaiian words than just “Hawaiian”.

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      Going down Wikipedia’s list of municipalities in Georgia I see Garden City, Iron City, Junction City, Lake City, Lumber City, Mountain City, Peachtree City, Ray City, Sale City, Twin City, and Union City. Despite the “city” element, a good number of them are towns of a few hundred people and wouldn’t be easy to spot on a map

      Edit: same method for Hawai’i shows Hawaiian Acres, Hawaiian Paradise Park, Hawaiian Ocean View, and Hawaiian Beaches

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        I guess it doesn’t take very many to make the map if there are no/few other identifiable naming conventions. Fair strategy scrolling municipalities on Wikipedia - thanks for that.

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    Do people in New Mexico just not talk all year untill Christmas or do they just constantly all year talk about Santa?

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      No, then they double it. Santa Fe becomes Santa Santa Fe.

      If you think that’s weird, I hear Santa Claus in Mexico is Santa Santa Claus.

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        Ahh I see that makes more sense lol, I’m Aussie so I have no clue what city names are in what state, had to google the US map just to find the state name.

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            Yeah nah, I reread your comment and felt like a dumbass lol, couldn’t be bothered fixing it tho, was hoping it would just disappear…

            I didn’t choose this username because I thought it was funny.

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      An indigenous thing I am guessing. Especially since Montana and its surroundings were one of the areas that was the last to resist European colonization. Although the mapmaker shouldn’t have listed it as ‘nature,’ unless they’re talking about a beaver lodge or something, but I’m doubtful.

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        I have a theory on this. Wikipedia’s list of municipalities in Montana shows three “lodge” place names: Deer Lodge, Lodge Grass, and Red Lodge. The pages for Deer Lodge and Red Lodge don’t explain their names, but the one for Lodge Grass does. It’s a mistranslation of the Crow name for the place, but it does refer to the actual grass in the area. So now the author has two with no answer found and one with a natural explanation