# Charlotteans and Minneapolitans **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 11, 2004, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlotteans-and-minneapolitans/254557 "2004-07-11T13:54:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlotteans-and-minneapolitans/254557/1 "2004-07-11T13:54:21Z")
Someone from Charlotte is a Charlottean. (shar’ luh tee’’ uhn) Someone from Minneapolis is a Minneapolitan. (muh nee’ uh pah’’ li tuhn). What are some other interesting or unusual names that you know about for residents of various locales? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlotteans-and-minneapolitans/254557/2 "2004-07-11T14:06:23Z")
The preferred term for a **Sheboygan** resident is **Sheboyganite** , but one also sees Sheboyganian. I always felt **Sheboygander** was a better term, but noone else seems to have adopted it. And since I don’t reside in the city, I don’t seem to get a vote. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Timchik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@Timchik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timchik)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlotteans-and-minneapolitans/254557/3 "2004-07-11T14:21:06Z")
I’ve always liked the British “Mancunian” and “Liverpudlian” for residents of Manchester and Liverpool, even if they may have started out as jocular Latinisms. and then (from _Love and Death_) there’s Woody Allen’s “Madridniks” ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlotteans-and-minneapolitans/254557/4 "2004-07-11T15:19:39Z")
Nobody ever calls people from Miami “Miamians”–maybe because so few people here are actually FROM here. We’re usually all referred to as “Floridians.” Too bad, because it’s funny to call people from Tampa “Tampons.” (And would a visiting Brit call them “bloody Tampons”?) ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlotteans-and-minneapolitans/254557/5 "2004-07-11T20:48:02Z")
Glaswegians from Glasgow. Neapolitans from Naples. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlotteans-and-minneapolitans/254557/6 "2004-07-11T22:13:45Z")
The folk up north don’t distinguish between “Minneapolis” and “St. Paul”. To us, they’re just “Citiots” (rhymes with “idiots”). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlotteans-and-minneapolitans/254557/7 "2004-07-11T23:47:05Z")
I like to call people from this neck of the woods “Baltimorons.” Funnily enough, some of them don’t find the term especially appealing. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlotteans-and-minneapolitans/254557/8 "2004-07-11T23:52:00Z")
In Sydney, Australia, where i’m originally from, we often call ourselves “Sydneysiders,” even though we’re _in_ Sydney, rather than beside it. Denizens of our chief rival to the south call themselves “Melbournians.” We have some less flattering names for them. 🙂 A city to the north of Sydney is called Newcastle, and its residents are often referred to as “Novocastrians.” I lived in England for a few years, and made a few trips to the Newcastle in the north-east, but i don’t think i ever heard this term used there. The generic term for someone from that area is “Geordie.” ---
**Author:** ![RAWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@RAWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RAWDuke)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlotteans-and-minneapolitans/254557/9 "2004-07-12T00:49:56Z")
> [@Silver Fire](#): > > The folk up north don’t distinguish between “Minneapolis” and “St. Paul”. To us, they’re just “Citiots” (rhymes with “idiots”). > > 😉 If there are two of them, we call them “Twin Citiots” 😃 My brother, who lives in Tucson, refers to people who live in Tucson as “Tucsonians” I asked him what he calls people from Pheonix. “Shitheads” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlotteans-and-minneapolitans/254557/10 "2004-07-12T01:22:52Z")
For those of us who live in the Twin Cities, we do distinguish between the two. \*\*Minneapolitans \*\*and **St. Paulites** are the terms I am familiar with. Interestingly, I don’t know that I have ever heard anyone from either Minneapolis or St. Paul refer to themselves as a “Twin Citian” (and certainly not as a Twin Citiot :)). ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlotteans-and-minneapolitans/254557/11 "2004-07-12T12:27:19Z")
People from Plano are just plano Texans. ---
**Author:** ![Beauty\_Personified](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Beauty\_Personified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauty_Personified)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlotteans-and-minneapolitans/254557/12 "2004-07-13T08:15:08Z")
I have no idea what someone specifically from Bathurst would be called. What about the people from other Bathursts around the world? West of Bathurst - “upshore” - it’s more French. There are a lot of Acadian villages and towns. So, many people from that area are proud to be known as Acadians (_lots_ of Acadian flags). In high-school, however, people from Belledune in particular were known as “Duners”. To the East of Bathurst - “downshore” - it’s more English. I’m pretty sure we had a name in high-school for people from “downshore”, but I can’t remember it at the moment. Oh, well. They’re from “downshore”; that’s all that matters. 😉 Bathurst has been basically 50/50 English/French for a long time now; but I believe the French hold the minor majority. Needless to say, there’s a lot of rivalry - both friendly and otherwise - between the English and French. The hockey games between the English and French high-schools were always a spectacle. (A lot of Kermit the Frog toys met their demise at those games. :eek: ) The people of Nashville are apparently called “Nashvillians”. But I like to call them “Nash_villains_”. If they hadn’t named the hockey team the Predators, maybe they could have named them the Villains. 🙂 Anyhoo… ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlotteans-and-minneapolitans/254557/13 "2004-07-13T14:10:37Z")
People from my hometown of LaGrange are referred to as “Grangers.” That’s also the local high school’s nickname. Leesburg residents are referred to as Leesburgites in the local media, but I like Leesburgers myself. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlotteans-and-minneapolitans/254557/14 "2004-07-13T22:49:15Z")
People around here are just called Lexingtonians… unless you’re trying to drive amidst them, then it’s feckless morons. ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlotteans-and-minneapolitans/254557/15 "2004-07-14T18:21:59Z")
> [@RAWDuke](#): > > If there are two of them, we call them “Twin Citiots” 😃 > > My brother, who lives in Tucson, refers to people who live in Tucson as “Tucsonians” > > I asked him what he calls people from Pheonix. > > “Shitheads” :eek: Bah. We’re Phoenicians. 🆒 Other Arizonan towns and citizens include: Flagstaff - Flagstaffians Mesa - Mesans (Sounds like Masons \) And Tucson - Unfortunate sods 😉 YMMV ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlotteans-and-minneapolitans/254557/16 "2004-07-15T02:01:42Z")
Shropshire locals = Salopians.