Naming ships for politicians simply causes political divisiveness, as we amply demonstrate. And, as Lincoln noted, a house divided against itself will not stand. We spend more energy quibbling over politics than we do on any in-depth understanding of the issues, and work towards consensus and the way forward. There are plenty of sites that talk of "the coming civil war." There are plenty more which show how ignorant the "average man on the street" is...can't do simple arithmetic, so clueless about geography they can't find their own country on a map, and completely baffled by their own history. This vacuum has ceded power to those politicians. No great surprise they then put their names on things. Which proceeds to piss people off more.

I don't care what they're called. If we don't have them anymore, that "problem" goes away all on its own. There's plenty more to argue about.

That said, perhaps if they were given non-political names, more people would take more interest in them. Clueless as a majority are, heck, names such as you propose might even inspire some interest and learning! "What's a Casablanca?" (The white house!?? LOL.) Where's Thetis Bay? Midway to where? From where? Why do you want to name a Navy ship after the New York hockey team? This Langley fellow built steam powered flying drones. Cool!

I have no name list. Yours are great. I will settle for the current ones. I just want carriers to name in the first place.