Down to the Gulf of Mexico

The Associated Press is down with the Gulf of America:

The Associated Press will refer to it by its original name while acknowledging the new name.... As a global news agency that disseminates news around the world, the AP must ensure that place names and geography are easily recognizable to all audiences.

Yeah, but “Gulf of Mexico” is already easily recognizable to all audiences. Particularly to blues audiences. As Mississippi Fred McDowell sang:

The 61 highway, longest road I know
You know it reach from Atlanta, Georgia,
    down to the Gulf of Mexico

[“As the major route northward out of Mississippi, U. S. Highway 61 has been of particular inspiration to blues artists. The original road began in downtown New Orleans, traveled through Baton Rouge, and ran through Natchez, Vicksburg, Leland, Cleveland, Clarksdale, and Tunica in Mississippi, to Memphis and north to the Canadian border.... Although many bluesmen used the lyrics ‘Highway 61, longest road that I know,’ their descriptions of the highway’s route were often misleading”: Highway 61 Blues (Mississippi Blues Trail).]