Given the president's shock and dismay at hearing those immortal verses of Francis Scott Key in Spanish, I hereby submit a proposal for immediate attention by the Federal government. Red-blooded Americans shouldn't be forced to live in cities and states with funny names. Democracy is an English invention (well, except for the Scots and Irish), and unless it stays English must necessarily totter and fall. Iraqis take note!
Candidates for immediate, summary Anglicization after the flip.
STATES
California (after a utopia in the early Spanish novel Las sergas de Esplandián by Garcia Ordóñez de Montalvo, ca. 1500)
Colorado (Sp. "reddish," ref. to the reddish color of mud found in the Colorado River)
Florida ("flowery," perh. ref. to the Spanish term for Easter, Pascua de Florida, because Ponce de Leon first saw land during the Easter season)
Louisiana (for King Louis XIV of France)
Montana (Sp. "mountain," Spanish word suggested on the state's induction in 1889 by Rep. James M. Ashley of Ohio)
Nevada (Sp. "snow-covered")
Vermont (Fr. vert mont, "green mountain")
CITIES
Alamo, TX (Sp. "poplar")
Alcatraz, CA (Sp. álcatraces, "pelican")
Bayonne, NJ (town in France)
Baton Rouge, LA (Fr. "red stick" perh. from red cyprus in the middle of a Native American village that stood at the site in the 18th century)
Belleville, IL (Fr. "Beautiful Town")
Bellevue, WA (Fr. "Beautiful View")
Belmont, CA (Fr. "Beautiful Mountain")
Beloit, WI (Fr. bel d'etroit, "beautiful strait")
Boca Raton, FL (Sp. boca de ratónes, "mouth of the mouse" perh. ref. to the jagged rocks in a nearby inlet)
Boise, ID (Fr. "wooded")
Buffalo, NY (Fr. beau fleuve, "beautiful river")
Calais, ME (after the French city)
Cape Canaveral, FL (Sp. cañaveral, canebrake)
Dry Salvages, MA (from Fr. les trois sauvages, "the three savages," a cluster of three islands off the Massachusetts coast. See the TS Eliot poem of that name)
Fresno, CA (Sp. "ash tree")
Coeur d'Alene, ID (Fr. "sharp-hearted," ref. to a nearby Indian tribe)
De Pere, WI (Fr. rapides des Peres, "rapids of the Fathers," ref. to a Jesuit mission on the nearby Fox River
Detroit, MI (Fr. d'etroit, "of the strait" shortened from Pontchartrain d'Etroit)
Eau Claire, WI (Fr. "clear water")
El Paso (Sp. "passage")
Florissant, MO (Fr. fleurissant, "flowering" or "flourishing")
Fond du Lac, WI (Fr. "end of the lake")
Gros Ventre River, WY (Fr. "great belly," name given to a nearby Native American tribe)
La Brea, CA (Sp. "tar")
La Crosse, WI (Fr. "the cross," ref. to the stick used in baggataway, a Native American game played by French fur traders, so named because of its resemblance to Catholic bishops' staff, known as a "crosier")
Lafayette, NJ (named for some Frog general)
Lake Champlain, NY (for Samuel de Champlain, the first European to visit the lake in 1609)
Lake L'Homme Dieu, MN (Fr. "lake of the man of God")
Laramie, WY (for Jacques La Ramie)
Las Cruces, NM (Sp. "crosses")
Las Vegas, NV (Sp. "meadows")
Los Angeles, CA (Sp. "angels," shortened from El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciúncula (The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciúncula)
Los Gatos, CA (Sp. "cats")
Moline, Il (corruption of Fr. moulin, "mill").
Montpelier, Vt (for French city)
Ozarks (Fr. aux arcs, "with bows," perh. ref. to the Indians who lived there)
Prairie du Chien, WI (Fr. "Meadow of the Dog")
Racine, WI (Fr. "root")
San Antonio, TX (Sp. "Saint Anthony," ref. to St. Anthony of Padua, on whose feast day in 1691 Spanish explorers found and named the river of this name).
San Francisco, CA (Sp. "Saint Francis" ref. to the San Francisco de Asís mission ).
Sangre de Cristo Mountains, NM (Sp. "blood of Christ," ref. the red glow cast on it by the setting sun)
Santa Fe, NM (Sp. "holy faith," shortened from La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asís, The Royal City of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis)
The Dalles, WA (Fr. "the flagstones")
Terre Haute, IN (Fr. "high ground")
NOTE: Needless to say the above list ignores toponyms (place names) derived from Native American languages. But then again, they can't manage much of a boycott at this point. Spanish is anti-American because America depends on Spanish-speakers!