Pacific YorkSomeone noted that "Germany has only 16 states yet three of them have 'Saxony' in the name."
AHC: Get three US states to share a word in their names other than New, North or South (or West or East).
The most obvious would be Texas dividing itself up. Also, I could imagine an Upper California, Middle California, and Lower California.
Damn, I read those all as California at first. Ah, what fun the POD for that would have been.North Carolina, South Carolina, and Best Carolina (Tennessee).
Kansas and Arkansas?
Not the same, it's pronounced like "Ark-and-saw" in Arkansas and pronounced "Can-suss" in Kansas. At least the Arkansas River is.
Have Tennessee become West Carolina?