“Why did those map people, or state-naming people go with so many New Wherevers?” “So speaks the New Yorker.” “Question still holds. If they were so attached to the Mexico or the Hampshire or the York, why didn’t they just stay there? Anyway, about there, or that part of Texas or Oklahoma. That gets a higher bump from me, and so does the first possibility. Up from southeast Texas, hit Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas. Why is S-A-S pronounced S-A-W? It should be Ar-Kansas. Did Kansas object?” Oddly enough, he found the question perfectly just. “I can’t tell you.”
