# From Georgia=Georgian. What are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 5, 2007, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820 "2007-01-05T15:34:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Erie\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/919ad9/32.png) [@Erie\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erie_Canary)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/1 "2007-01-05T15:34:45Z")
I hail from Georgia, therefore I am a Georgian. Someone from California would be a Californian. So what do you call someone from Utah, or Massachusetts, or Maine? Utahian? Massachusettser? Is there a rule of thumb that goes along with what you call people from a certain place? Where are you from and what are you called? 😕😕😕 ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/2 "2007-01-05T15:36:10Z")
I currently live in Wolverhampton. You can call me “Madam”. I was born in Kent, which makes me a Maid of Kent although if I’d been born on the other side of the river I’d have been a Kentish Maid. ---
**Author:** ![Nancarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/3 "2007-01-05T15:37:56Z")
You two should start a band. Londoner here. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/4 "2007-01-05T15:42:12Z")
I was a sluff, someone who lives in Slough. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/5 "2007-01-05T15:42:15Z")
I’m fron Southampton, England - you may therefore address me as ‘scummer’ ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/6 "2007-01-05T15:47:09Z")
I’m not living there now, but I’m from New Hampshire originally. I’d be a New Hampshirite or New Hampsherman (I prefer the second one - it sounds like a super hero). ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/7 "2007-01-05T15:50:40Z")
**Michigander.** Born and raised. I also will live eternally unless you cut off my head. There can, after all, be only one. As an aside, those of us (not me) who take residence in the UP (upper peninsula) are called **Yoopers**. Eh? ---
**Author:** ![Baracus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@Baracus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baracus)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/8 "2007-01-05T16:04:13Z")
According to my brother, residents of Massachusetts are properly called Massholes, but then he lives in New Jersey so take it with a grain of salt. As a former New Yorker turned North Carolinian, I am also known as a Yankee, while the natives mostly go by Billy Bob or Betty Sue. ---
**Author:** ![rocksolid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@rocksolid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocksolid)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/9 "2007-01-05T16:18:02Z")
Apparently i’m an Edinburger, although i’ll stick to my longer-hand ‘I’m from Edinburgh’ if thats ok 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/10 "2007-01-05T16:18:35Z")
According to my ex-military friends, I am a damn hippie. To others, I am either a Californian (where I grew up) or a Minnesotan (state I’m currently in). ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/11 "2007-01-05T16:20:33Z")
To answer your very first question, I’m a Utahn. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/12 "2007-01-05T16:20:56Z")
Oh, I’m Melvin Rose of Texas, And my friends all call me Tex, When I lived in old New Mexico They called me Old New Mex. When I lived in old Kentucky, They called me Old Kentuck. I was born in old Shamokin, Which is why they call me Melvin Rose! ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/13 "2007-01-05T16:21:03Z")
I am a Mississippian. I think Wiki’s pages on any particular state will have what natives are called on it. ---
**Author:** ![Erie\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/919ad9/32.png) [@Erie\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erie_Canary)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/14 "2007-01-05T16:24:30Z")
[QUOTE=FatBaldGuy] To answer your very first question, I’m a Utahn. [/QUOTE] This has been driving me nuts forever! I’m so glad you answered! How do you pronounce that? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/15 "2007-01-05T16:24:42Z")
Massachusetts = Bay Stater. That was the best they could do. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/16 "2007-01-05T16:25:48Z")
When I was in Minneapolis they called themselves Minneapol **ites** When I was in Indianapolis they called themselves Indianapol **ans** I understand that people in Naples both Italy & Florida are called Neapol **itans** Therefore, three of these four cities are populated exclusively by madmen. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/17 "2007-01-05T16:26:26Z")
I’m from Kansas, I’m a Kansan. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/18 "2007-01-05T16:28:00Z")
[QUOTE=ScareyFaerie] I currently live in Wolverhampton. You can call me “Madam”. [/QUOTE] I’ve been to Wolverhampton. I think I’ll call you unlucky. ---
**Author:** ![redtail23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@redtail23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/redtail23)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/19 "2007-01-05T16:28:18Z")
Okie checking in. Oklahoman if you want to be formal. ---
**Author:** ![tbdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@tbdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tbdi)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/20 "2007-01-05T16:30:41Z")
People from Maine are “Mainiacs” to the rest of the New Englanders; asking them the most common response is just “I’m from Maine” even though you can’t get there form here. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820.md?page=2)