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Because we don't agree with the US's imperialist co-option of that term to exclude the majority of americans.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/07/when-did-the-united-states-start-calling-itself-america-anyway/
How about we call them "Union Members" seeing as they're part of "the Union" as decreed by their founding fathers? Instead of bulldozing over all of the other "United States" in America and the world by replacing the imperialist "American" with the... Somehow less imperialist "United States Ian"?