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those places have kept their mexican names because the white people who conquered the land decided to just keep their original names or incorporate them into their modern name.

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I think they have Spanish names because when America was going through its founding stages, the colonizers stayed on the east coast but then westward(?) expansion happened. A lot of people were moving due to like gold, fields, etc. 

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I think they have Spanish names because when America was going through its founding stages, the colonizers stayed on the east coast but then westward(?) expansion happened. A lot of people were moving due to like gold, fields, etc. 

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I believe that some states and some cities were named after certain tribes.

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Western U.S states have Spanish named cities because of the orchestration of taking land from Mexico from the Mexican- American War. The U.S won the war and Mexico had to settle arguments with U.S and Mexico had to lose major of land.

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I think so many western U.S states and cities have Spanish names because its history includes Spanish colonization and exploration. I think the United States ended up with them because they took these states and cities from Spanish colonies when the won the Mexican-American War.

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I think they have Spanish names because they want to relate it to Spanish exploration and their history. They ended up with them probably by the land.

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I think Many Western States and cities have Spanish names because they were stolen from the people who were there originally.

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I believe that some states and some cities were named after certain tribes. The U.S won the war and Mexico had to settle arguments with U.S and Mexico had to lose major of land.

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U.s. states and cities have spanish names because, mexicans were her first. Then white people moved here and took it over.

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They ended up with these because Mexican people used to live there but the US ended up with them because they colonized them.

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I feel like it has something to do with Aztec and Cortez who tried to conquer them and this took place out west. Also a lot of people may have migrated from mexico into the western part of the US.

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I think that so many western U.S. states and cities have Spanish names because where that states are now what used to be part of the U.S.

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Western U.S states and cities have Spanish names because during the Mexican-American War some parts of Mexican land was taken over by the United States. The United States ended up with the states by the signing of a treaty where they gained the territories of Texas, New Mexico, and California.

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I think its them cities have Spanish names because when cities where being name it was majority mexican and they just never changed it

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Immigration can play a big part of why those state names on the west. Also being that they have majority population of Spanish

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Many of the states that have Spanish names were originally part of Mexico and the US took them in the Spanish-American war.

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i think they have the spanish names so that it connects with their own history and they took over land so that is how they became them.

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I think they just took the names for themselves

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When the Europeans started exploring the U.S the Mexicans had that land where Texas is all the way west to California. So when the war happened the Europeans pushing the Mexicans back into Mexico today.

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I think western states and cities have Spanish names is the result of the war and how mexico wanted the land, and I think we ended up with them because we won the war and they were not going to take it from us since we already won.

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They have these names because these states use to be Mexican territory but the United Staes pushed them right below taxes in the Mexican American war.

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I think they have mexican names because during America´s first stages the europeans mostly stayed on the east cost and since those states are the closest to Mexico more latinos populated that area.

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Those states were like mexican territory or inhabited by majority mexican people. They probably kept the name as a guilt pity thing since they took the land.

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Many places may have Mexican names because their close to Mexico. After colonizing parts of Mexico, t

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I think because they used to be part of the Mexican territory so the europeans just kept the names.

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Since they were originally from mexico it would make sense for them to keep the name and colonize the name

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Maybe it has to do with the use of spanish language, the amount and or/and the U.S won those states in wars. They did not ask nicely.

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all that land used to be owned by spain a spanish speaking nation so natrually they would have spanish names

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Wasn't America invaded and colonized by the Spanish? I think that was circa 1500 to circa 1800

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The United States took over large parts of Mexico during the Mexican-American War, western US states and cities have Spanish names. The United States got the states of Texas, New Mexico, and California by signing a treaty.

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Im not sure but I think Mexico had some parts of the U.S and they were taken over by the U.S and added to the country.

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They were stolen states and got credit by having them have spanish names

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I feel like western U.S states still have Spanish names because Mexican people are reclaiming the cities and states that america has taken from them.

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Because most states speak spanish and most them is puerto rican.

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I think many Western U.S. States and cities have Spanish names because Mexicans lost the War to the U.S., So they had to settle the deal.

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mexico is a spanish place that mexicans go to and they have different things for their culture and they have different events.

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I think because of the emigration of many Mexicans to those spots which made them more Spanish areas

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The United States took over large parts of Mexico during the Mexican-American War, western US states and cities have Spanish names. The United States got the states of Texas, New Mexico, and California by signing a treaty.

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I think they have spanish names because things and events that happened in history caused mexicans to come to the U.S way back when. So they came in and took over and their culture has been here ever since.

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Most have mexican names because it once use to be mexicos' land. I feel it also is because those cities are nearby and lies on the border.

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Because the white people who conquered the land decided to just keep their original names or incorporate them into their modern name 

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Because the white people who conquered the land decided to just keep their original names or incorporate them into their modern name 

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I think that so many western U.S. states and cities have Spanish names because where that states are now what used to be part of the U.S.

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I once asked my dad that question and he said that it was because a long time ago New Mexico, Nevada, Texas, California, etc were part of Mexico. So, that's why.