From Lincoln to Lincoln: The way home for a wayward G.O.P

[Kadagar_AV]

Dude it's called the United States of America. USAians is the most awkward word I've ever tried to read/pronounce.

I just got tired of bringing Canada, Mexico and all of the South American Continent to trial because of stupidity from the USAnians.

[Montmorency]

UKaians? USSRians?

While the former could be the awkward "United-Kingdomers", the citizens of the USSR were well-known as "Soviets".

But really, if you need to call us something else either call us by our home states or just refer to us as Unionists.

[Kadagar_AV]

UKaians? USSRians?

While the former could be the awkward "United-Kingdomers", the citizens of the USSR were well-known as "Soviets".

But really, if you need to call us something else either call us by our home states or just refer to us as Unionists.

The very fact that You deem "unionists" to be a specific USAnian term on an international forum is enough for me to go to bed without second thoughts... So cheers :)

[Montmorency]

Unionist typically refers to an affiliation with a particular sort of political party, or general subscription to a political ideology espousing some sort of geographic union.

I've never heard it used elsewhere as a demonym. Perhaps you can enlighten me?

[Kadagar_AV]

Unionist typically refers to an affiliation with a particular sort of political party, or general subscription to a political ideology espousing some sort of geographic union.

I've never heard it used elsewhere as a demonym. Perhaps you can enlighten me?

For me it would be shocking to consider "unionist" to be a denonym. Look at Sweden, there IS a reason why we have 3 crowns in our heraldry. For sure it should be 4 with the natives included, but we never cared much about them anyway, in fact, we made them a non-existent factor. Guess what that reminds me of?

Care to explain why You jump at things like these?

[Greyblades]

UKaians? USSRians?

While the former could be the awkward "United-Kingdomers"

We prefer "Britons" thank you very much.

[Montmorency]

Care to explain why You jump at things like these?

You advanced a terribly unwieldy and probably linguistically absurd demonym for "Americans". I suggested "Unionists" as an alternative, and you accused me of, I don't know, geographic self-centeredness. I pointed out that we would be taking first dibs on "Unionist" as a demonym, so you should have no cause for protestation.

Why should I be forced to explain these things? Was it really unclear?

We prefer "Britons" thank you very much.

Apparently...

[Tellos Athenaios]

I just got tired of bringing Canada, Mexico and all of the South American Continent to trial because of stupidity from the USAnians.

If you cannot stand calling them Americans, you could call them Yankees. If they complain about that, simply ask them if they would prefer "Redneck" instead.

[a completely inoffensive name]

In this thread, OP asks how to reform GOP for future elections, thread gets filled with Europeans telling all the "USAnians" how homogenized we are.