America Was Named After An Immigrant.
“America First.” “Close the borders.” “Send them back.”
Here’s the thing nobody screaming those slogans seems to know: The United States of America is literally named after an immigrant.
Amerigo Vespucci. Born in Florence, Italy, 1454. He sailed to the New World in the 1490s and became the first European to recognize that what Columbus had stumbled onto wasn’t Asia, it was an entirely unknown continent.
A German cartographer named Martin Waldseemüller honored that discovery in 1507 by labeling the landmass “America” on his map.
The name stuck.
Your country. Named after an Italian immigrant…
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