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[quote]"DEC cannot and does not have the authority to rename roads, water bodies, or any other natural resources in the state," said Ms. Severino. "These are historical records and sometimes date back hundreds of years. We can, however, change or remove how they are referenced under DEC regulations and to strive to be proactive in those measures whenever possible."

The precise origin of the names is a mystery to even the most rooted locals.

"I'd like to say, 'Talk to one of the old folks around here,' but the trouble with that is I'm 83." said Tom Bissell, a local historian from Hamilton County.

The federal government began to strip the n-word from its topographic maps in the early 1960s. But within the more obscure reaches of cartographic bureaucracy, the n-word occasionally endures.[/quote]

So, on the one hand:  you've got tiny backwoods features on old topo maps that have never been revised even though there was a national attempt to do so beginning in the early 60s.  (Of course, this was when elected in the South were screaming the word from the courthouse steps, and the campaign stump.)

Meanwhile, a GOP frontrunner has kept the name up until a few years ago at his family's private getaway that he goes to several times a year.

The fact that OP posted this as some sort of equivalent situation really illustrates perfectly the nature of lingering racism in the GOP and the South in general.

"What?!?  What's wrong with 'N**r Head Lake'?  It's historical!"

If you want a pitch-perfect example of the difference between "institutional racism" and "racial prejudice", just look at the hyperventilating that still goes on among right-wingers about a single guy in a beret with a cane who stood outside of a single polling station in a 99% black neighborhood in Philly on the one hand, and the front-runner of one of the two major political parties given a pass on this on the other.[/quote]

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