Anyone else notice this? In the beginning you had the thirteen colonies/states (with a couple exceptions); regions; towns, even the whole continent named in honor of old-world monarchs; personages; places and so on...

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

Then about 200 years ago... bam, people go nuts and ever since then virtually every last place in america gets its name branded after the pre-hominid grunts of xyz local monkey tribe.

....er, pardon me -- words in the Native American languages...

So what made americans unanimously decide one day to become such raging xenophiliacs in the age before jewish media?