Gulf of America? It's not an original idea
A Mississippi state legislator had a tongue-in-cheek proposal to do the same thing more than a decade ago. He wasn't serious. Is Trump?
When president-elect Donald Trump proposed renaming the Gulf of Mexico earlier this week, he may have been channeling a colorful Mississippi state legislator—a Democrat, no less—who once did the identical thing.
His name is Steve Holland, and in 2012 he proposed a bill that would change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
