I complained about this kind of thing a couple months ago when Maryland passed a law to rename the Baltimore airport after Thurgood Marshall – renaming things, regardless of the honoree or the partisan makeup of the area, is statism at its worst, which makes it ironic that Grover is behind the Reagan movement. There’s obviously a role for government in the naming or renaming of things, but whenever possible it should formalize what develops organically, not impose from above. Where I used to live in the Shenandoah Valley, for instance, all the numbered county roads had to be given names for the 911 system, and the local government did a good job of getting residents to provide input and name the roads sensibly – after the original family in the area or some geographical or historical landmark, etc. Also, there used to be landmarks throughout the country that included the N word, and it was appropriate that those be renamed, regardless of common usage. (In a refreshingly non-Orwellian detail, the U.S. Geological Survey still lists the original names as variants; you can search here.) But even this kind of renaming should be limited to the most egregious cases only, unlike Maine’s decision in 2000 to ban the use of “squaw” in place names.