However, some research has shown that if your surname, your family name, begins with a letter later in the alphabet, you could be at a disadvantage at school and in life.
But members of the group pushing for change have said rural Oregon is politically outnumbered in its state and that their voices have been ignored for years.
In terms now of where this goes, we've already heard some very strong, very emotional language from the camp of the man who appears to be on the losing side of all this, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah.
" Now we are in a pandemic and you're finding yourself sort of on the back-foot with an already fragile system and not knowing how to go about fixing it, " he said.
One implication which strikes me is that those who are the most advantaged in terms of wealth, power and privilege should feel the effect of austerity measures as much as those who are least advantaged.
If these guys want to beat Nintendo at their own game, they're gonna have to do something new, something exciting that the Wii isn't already offering us at a cheaper price.
If the two Latin American countries were to form a currency union at today's exchange rate, Argentina would find itself at a hefty competitive disadvantage.