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Well that's not how names work. It's "New Mexico" because it's not Mexico of old, now is it, you dimwit, you absolute buffoon. If they had to change their name to anything "America"-related, they'd have to go with "Another Goddamn US State, Name Pending".
To be clear, there are two Mexico's of old. The first was the area dominated by the Aztecs, and the second was a kingdom in the same place established and run by Spanish conquerors.
New Mexico was applied to the area just north of the latter Kingdom of Mexico in the 16th century, because the Spanish were hoping it would be another Mexico to conquer.
When the Spanish Empire collapsed and the Kingdom of Spain gave way to the Mexican Empire, the northernmost section was still called New Mexico because why change.
Then America grabbed a massive chink of north Mexico, and New Mexico became part of America.