In this stunningly original reinterpretation of the New World, Grandin reveals how the United States …
Moreover, Everett was also bothered by Mexico’s official name, Estados Unidos Mexicanos. He felt that Estados Unidos, or, in English, the United States, was proprietary to his country, the United States of America. Mexicans were both plagiarists and thieves, “borrowing one half our name” only “to rob us of the other.” This, as far as I know, was the first time that the name America was politicized in such a pointed way.