> New York, New Jersey, and New Hampshire have all been with us for well over two hundred years. When are they going to drop the "New" part? It isn't necessary for them to become "Old," but New? Give me a break! If any state deserves to be called new, shouldn't in be Hawaii?

You realise, of course, that all of York, Jersey and Hampshire are places in the United Kingdom, which is outside the entire United States of America? If the "New" places you speak of were to drop the "New" part, the names would become ambiguous. Also the keeping the "New" part is fair because they *are* newer than the places they were named after.