Hawaii is correct on their list but not on their map
Hawaii – Hawaii resident
bc Hawaiian is reserved for natives
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.
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)
Oh that's SO much easier to say!!
We usually call drivers from Connecticut Connecticunts. And Mass drivers are Massholes. Rhode Island drivers are to be avoided at all costs.
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.
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).
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.
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 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.
Hoosier here. I have no explanation.
A question I wondered about is ... how do you pronounce it?
or some other way I don't know about?
btw, nice to meet a Hoosier
Who shur is closer. Though some pronounce it more with a z sound instead of an s.
I've heard them called Connecticritters and I like that
Massachusettsan? Nope, it's Masshole, c'mon my guy we all know this
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!
Came here to say this. Also, Massholes drive like massholes and have rightfully earned their name.
Hoosi is the best state
Wyomingite? Doesn't look right to me. Wyominger seems more logical.
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.
...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...
I prefer "connecticutie"
TIL the word "demonyms".
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.
Some people say Michiganian. They’re wrong, mind you, but they do.
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
Wisconsinite sounds like some sort of flaky mineral.
Or a 70s band.
I’m pretty sure people from Maine are “Mainions”
Source: my uncle works for Maine
Mainiacs
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.
Arkansan is an interesting one to me.
Is it like Arkanzin (how you would say Kansan plus the Ar- part) or more like Arkanson (with the softer s)?
Inz or enz.
The folks I know from there often elide the vowel heavily so that it sounds more like arkanzn
I knew most of them but did not know what "demonym" meant. My guess would have been derogatory names for states.
I'd argue that Kentucky should be green. Sure the 'y' becomes an 'i', but it's still pronounced like Kentucky+-an so the difference is purely orthographic.
And changing a final 'y' to 'i' is extremely common when adding a suffix. (cf. happiness, beautiful, angrier)
It's Sconnie
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