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[KBCraig]

The name of the country should be changed from the United States of America to just  The State of America.

A far more subtler change, similar to this, already occurred. Prior to Lincoln's war, United States was grammatically a plural noun ("The United States are ..." vs. "The United States is ..."). It slowly shifted to a singular noun in the late nineteenth century.

Shelby Foote (R.I.P.) used his brilliant Southern eloquence to describe it during the Ken Burns "Civil War" production.

Ken Burns of New Hampshire, I might add. Although we might have different views on "public" television.