There's a place for us (well, there was, anyway)

The city of Taft, CA had some...interesting beginnings:

According to a display at the West Kern Oil Museum, local residents asked the Southern Pacific Railroad if the station could be named Moro when the rails arrived about 1900. A railroad official, the story says, declined because the name would be too easily confused with the coastal town of Morro Bay. Instead, the railroad directed the station be called Moron. Pictures of local businesses, including the Moron Pharmacy, hang in the museum. After a fire burned much of the town during the 1920s, it was renamed Taft, in honor of the U.S. President of the same name.

Gee, why would they change it?

(Bear in mind that this is from a Wikipedia article, so take it with a grain of salt. I suppose this could've been written by someone with a grudge against Taft.)

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