So you had the thirteen colonies/states (minus a couple); regions; towns, landforms, even the whole continent named in the honor of monarchs; personages; old-world places and such....

...good, white, european words -- our words.

Then suddenly people flip and ever since then nearly exclusively everything in america gets branded after the pre-hominid grunts of xyz local monkey tribe, come to present day when every other little shit you encounter is legally called "dakota," from "minnesota."

Why?