Tell me you're Indianan without telling me you're Indianan.
If you want Hoosier on there then you have to put stuff like Appalachian too.
Edit - on rereading this it looks a bit harsh, it was meant with a wink and a smile.
That's still a cultural name not the proper English Demonym for Indiana.
New hampshite.
Hoosi is the best state
Hawaii is correct on their list but not on their map
Hawaii – Hawaii resident
bc Hawaiian is reserved for natives
Why is there an extra ‘i’ in Louisianan?
As if French didn't already have enough vowels.
Because it ends in a vowel maybe? That seems to be the pattern
Weirdest one is people from Indiana are called 'Hoosiers'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoosier
Most awkward one is Connecticuter .... it sounds more like a profession than in describing where someone comes from.
We usually call drivers from Connecticut Connecticunts. And Mass drivers are Massholes. Rhode Island drivers are to be avoided at all costs.
I've heard them called Connecticritters and I like that
Having grown up there, I always liked Connecticutian as a serious one, but also accepted is Nutmegger (it's the nutmeg state) and best jokey name is Connecticunt (pairs well with our neighboring Massholes)
Hello from Litchfield county
Oh that's SO much easier to say!!
Yeah but. I lived in Indiana for a long time and most people just say Indianan. Hoosier is more of a Midwest thing. I'm from Arkansas, and that and Florida is a little odd. It's pronounced differently than the state is.
I had an American history teacher in high school who was adamant we weren't Arkansan because fuck Kansas (paraphrased). He said we were Arkansonian. It doesn't seem to have caught on.
Most people from where? Everyone in Indiana says Hoosier. Maybe it is a Midwest thing, but I don't know how I'd react if someone called me an Indianan. It doesn't even sound correct (admittedly, at least 20% of these sound really awkward).
English is horrible at Demonyms specifically because we've stolen so many words from other languages. It's why the default is actually the phrase, "I am from..." Instead of "I am a/an..."
I'm an Indianan because I don't want to be associated with the 5th year high school in the Southern half of our start.
This is wrong... People from Texas are Texicans.
I wanna kick Ted Cruz in the Texicals.
Had a convo about this with a pair of (very white) people from Texas. They unironically called themselves Tejanos.
Not sure how widespread that preference is among Texas people.
There's a weird sect of white Texans who call themselves Tejanos as a constructed cultural identity that has nothing to do with historical Tejanos.
Very much the kind of people who will sit in a truck stop diner for eight hours a day explaining to anyone who will listen that Texas is the only state that can legally secede because blah blah blah the republic blah blah Texas is actually its own nation, technically blah blah blah the Texas Rangers actually outrank the feds because precedence blah blah blah
...tejanos around here can be of any ethnicity: it's considered a cultural identity (not unlike hispanic or latino) for folks with deep roots in the original regional melting-pot but it's not synonymous with the texian or broader post-revolutionary texan population...
Massachusettsan? Nope, it's Masshole, c'mon my guy we all know this
Came here to say this. Also, Massholes drive like massholes and have rightfully earned their name.
Yeah, no one has ever used the term “Massachusettsan”, fucking ever.
Also, everyone I’ve ever known from Connecticut consistently responds to “dipshit”, so the map is a bit flawed…
Connecticunt is also used by Massholes, which is both valid and why they're on thin ice when being considered part of New England lol
You're going to start a war with New-Englanders if you suggest that Connecticut is part of New England!
I prefer "connecticutie"
TIL the word "demonyms".
I have family pretty much all over the eastern seaboard, and elsewhere in smaller numbers.
Most the these are accurate overall.
However! There is another term for folks from the Carolinas, Carolingians. It seems to have faded from common use, but several of my cousins around my age were still seeing it in textbooks.
It was also applied to North and South Carolingians separately, not just to all people in the Carolinas as a whole.
I knew most of them but did not know what "demonym" meant. My guess would have been derogatory names for states.
I too identify myself as some kind of demon :-P
Some people say Michiganian. They’re wrong, mind you, but they do.
I’m a Utahn and so’s my wife!
I always have know it as Utahite, like Nephite.
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