#California's Status-Label (#SanctuaryState) Is a Bit of a Misnomer @DaveMorrisonBCL @ICEgov @CA_DMV #SanctuaryCities #Sanctuary #Sanctuaries #Californian #Californium #Californians

I had only heard of "Sanctuary Cities," but apparently "Sanctuary States" are also 'a thing' (California, of course; with proposals that New York become one also, along with Oregon, New Mexico, Colorado, Rhode Island, New Jersey & Illinois (and maybe others)).

But Dave Morrison tells us how 'the reality of today's conditions' don't quite reach the lofty arrangement that the word "Sanctuary" implies.

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The word “Sanctuary” carries the scent of “|Holy” (|Sanctum, |Saint). 

California was named after the eutopia in Spanish writer Garci Ordòñez de Montalvo's Las sergas de Esplandiàn. It's anybody's guess what might've inspired that name (maybe "The "Song of Roland"), or maybe the state/region(s)-name a different inspiration (that the story's place-name only influenced) ... possibly |Hot |Furnace (explaining why some old maps split the name into two words), possibly |High |Mountains (an indigenous phrase that—though Montalvo's story was written before the Spanish talked to the Native Americans—might've influenced the naming).

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