Las Vegas Sun

April 26, 2024

Letter: Spanish names welcome visitors

If I were living in Mexico, unable to speak English but planning a trip north to look for work, and I was looking at a map of the United States wondering where to go, I'd probably feel more comfortable heading to Las Vegas (the meadows) or Los Angeles (the angels) than I would to, say, Pahrump. If we hadn't wanted foreign visitors, we wouldn't have named our town in Spanish. Viva Las Vegas!

James Price, Henderson

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