Show of Hands

Yep, it's a double standard. You can't disagree with one, and be ok with the other.

And I will admit, before these polls, I'd never considered the meaning of the name.

It's Corpus Christi, which translates to the body of Christ. I don't think that Corpus Christi is much of a mouthful as saying you are from The Body of Christ, Texas.

Probably. Utah has the weirdest names for cities and children lol

His geographical ignorance.

Umm no, not ignorant at all. There is a point to this. There is a city named both Corpus Christi and the body of Christ. South of Houston in Texas. There is something I'm looking for in this poll.

Great...I'm sure we'll all be enlightened.

I just got done dealing with little kids at an elementary school. You don't like my poll don't vote on it. Don't follow me if you don't like the polls. I'm testing to see if a direct religious statement differs in the minds compared to indirect…

My hypothesis is that someone sees "Corpus Christi" and doesn't make the religious connections right away but "The Body of Christ" is more outright. I didn't link anything because I wanted to keep as many people in the dark as the the actual…

Translation.

Oh. I totally think that happens. Compare: Los Angeles, and The Angels.

Exactly. That was also part of the inspiration. I figured LA was too well know to use for poll one. I wanted to test Church v. State. Not geography

The problem that you run into is a lot of places like that were named before they became part of the US. Corpus Christi is a weird case, though, because it was named in the 1500s, but settled 300 years later.

Actually the Bay was named for the Church festival day on which it was discovered. A settlement on the bay was named Kinney's Trading Post in the 1800s and later adopted the name of the bay for mail purposes.

But MJ, I see where you're goin'.