Golly, Andrew, do you really mean to say that there are roadside shrines outside New Mexico?
Golly RLS, did you read what I wrote before asking?
Whoda thunk it?
Who's isn't thinking (before posting) is the question you should ask yourself.
And I'm certainly happy to know that in New Mexico you guys call them descansos
Then I'm happy you're happy learning something new.
It's really important to know that.
It is, if you strive to call things by their proper names.
I don't think we called them that in Colorado.
Correction:
I don't think we called them that in Colorado.
Either again, you failed to read the web page with the photo's I provided or you believe Colorado isn't in the southwest:
THE CUSTOM of marking the site of a death on the highway has deep roots in the Hispanic culture of the Southwest, where these memorials are often referred to as Descansos ("resting places").Or can you take the time to look up the language before posting:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/descansoFrom Spanish descanso (“place of rest, as of a funeral procession”)
Noun[edit]
descanso (plural descansos)
A cross placed at the site of a violent, unexpected death, in memoriam.
The highways of the USA are littered with descansos, silent reminders of automobile accidents. I think we called them "roadside shrines."
You think you call them roadside shrines. You don't think for '
we'.
Not sure yet what they call them in Florida.
If you knew to research before posting, or read what I've provided, then you'd know.
Much like the current US leader,
some have expressed very little effort to learn much, have shown a lack of intellectual curiosity.
"
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."-Nicolaus Copernicus