Win Today, Lose Tomorrow: Why Republicans Protect the "Honor" of Offensive Team Names

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3. what's keeping Democrats from thinking about it?

Supposedly 59% of Democrats support keeping the name http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/redskins/2014/01/02/team-name-controversy-public-policy-polling/4297665/

One thing about a mascot name. My school was called "The Tigers". The point of such a name is that "you don't want to tangle with a Tiger" because they will rip you to shreds.

But at the same time, my home town was named after the Huron Indians. But how did the Huron Indians get their name? They did NOT call themselves Huron. That was a name that the French gave them. One source tells me that the word derives from French slang that basically means 'slobs'.

Yet at the same time, French in America would write back to France about how noble and awesome the Hurons Indians were. Except, of course, they weren't from India either.

Then there's Delaware. Named, of course, after the Delaware Indians. Except the Delaware Indians, it is said, were named after some territorial Governor, Thomas De La Warr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_West,_3rd_Baron_De_La_Warr

Then, of course, there are certain movements. The word negro is now considered "offensive". But Martin Luther King did not think it was offensive. He used it all the time in his books.

But it's cool. Let's change the name to "Washington Palefaces."

Because you really don't want to mess with a paleface. They will rip you to shreds.

Gonna be kinda strange though when most of the players on the Washington Palefaces are black. Then again, most of our atheletes were not really tigers either.