WildPalmTree

Conventions. That's what kept the US somewhat sane, until it didn't. How is that going again?

Broken finger. Brilliant!

And that is my point! Or half of it, I should say. I've made too many comments in this thread to keep track of myself. Contextually it works, but that doesn't make it more suitable than American as that works equally well. No one that isn't trying to be obtuse will think you mean Mexican when you say American, even though it is technically as correct.

It was a retorical question. :)

Agreed. And correct. We are not disagreeing. :)

"Saying someone is a United Statesian or Statesian is probably the closest to how other countries like Canada (Canadian) or Mexico (Mexican) refer to themselves. If we forget that pretty much all other countries are a unity of states, counties, and or provinces. "

I was refering to this part of your post. United Statesian or Statesian doesn't make sense to correlate to Mexicans. They are both united states. As for Canada, I think they might be a confederacy and thus united states as well, but I also believe their semi-official name is actually Canada.

As for most countries being united of sorts, I'm willing to accept that as an axiom, but I'm doubtful it is part of their cultural identity in the majority of cases. Maybe on a per capita basis.

At this point, I think we should just call US people Indian.

They will. They will also know if you say you are from America. My point was that one is no better than the other, from an accuracy point of view. Both have multiple meanings.

I'm assuming Washingtonian would be refering to the man, not the state that refers to the man. I mean, it's a silly name, but not for the reason you state.

You do know it is actually named "the United Mexican States", right? The name of the US is simply bad from the beginning and sometimes you can't fix bad. Unless they take over all of the Americas, I guess. Then it's a good name. Bad move, but good name.

But not more States, united or not...?

I just find it sad this is actually logged. Uninstalls, that is.