WaPo: “Of the hundreds of towns that crowd Florida’s coastline bordering the broad blue sea between America and Mexico, only one has a street named Gulf of Mexico Drive.
For 68 years, the main road through the small island town of Longboat Key on Florida’s Gulf Coast has used that name — GMD to the locals.
And despite the preferences of the president of the United States and the governor of Florida, the locals want to keep it that way.
After hearing from hundreds of residents who objected to changing the name of the 10-mile-long road to Gulf of America Drive, Longboat Key town commissioners voted Monday to keep the name as is.”