Essential California: Who claims a name?

A Mexican journalist wants his home state of Baja California Sur to lop off the Baja, lose the Sur and return to its original name: simply 'California'

Get up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent six days a week.What’s in a name? And who gets to call their native stateMy colleague, Mexico City-based foreign correspondent Kate Linthicum, hasHe wants his home state of Baja California Sur to lop off the Baja, lose the Sur and return to its original name: simply “California,” with no qualifiers.

For Cuauhtemoc Morgan Hernandez, the Mexican journalist behind the longshot campaign, it feels like a historic injustice that the name of California alone is now claimed by the 31st U.S. state. “It’s a fight to recuperate our identity,” Morgan told her. “If we lose the name California, we lose our history.”Voters are about to get their first peek at the future of balloting in Los Angeles County, where officials have spent years building a new voting system.

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