California Etymology

1. Low information thinkers don't like to hear edifying truths that contradict their unquestioned emotional gut reactions. A googlable truth that most racist, white nationalists don't like to hear is the origin of the name of America's most populous state: California which is also the fifth largest economy in the world.
2. In the 1500s, Muslims were kicked out of Spain by the financiers of Christopher Columbus (King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella). Many of the dispossessed crossed the Atlantic and ended up on the west coast of North America.
3. By 1590, due to the influence of Moors, a name was given to this golden land of opportunity, less than 100 years after 1492. The land was named after a caliphate, that is, California, or, as some report, a caliphate with mountains.
4. Well ...
   • In 1607, 17 years later, the English landed at Jamestown.
   • In 1620, 30 years later, the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.
   • In 1885, 295 years later, the German Friederich Trump (Donald Trump's Grandfather) immigrated to the U.S. And, began the Trump fortune by opening a string of bordellos (wiki). Hmm--a family tradition of abusing women?
5. Bigotted cries for Muslims to go home igknow the fact that Islamites were here before the white racists' ancestors called America home.
6. If the king of Spain had not forbidden the passage of Muslims and Jews to the New World (1522), instead of a Hispanic/Latino culture, California might have become a nation of Muslims or a homeland for Jews.