# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/21 "2007-01-05T16:35:33Z")
Ontarian checking in. Being born and raised in Toronto (the outskirts of which, where I live, are referred to by locals as the Greater Toronto Area, or GTA), that also makes me a Torontonian. I also lived in Sebright for a while. That made me an idiot. ---
**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, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/22 "2007-01-05T16:38:20Z")
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove] When I was in Minneapolis they called themselves Minneapol **ites** [/QUOTE] I’ve heard them call themselves Minneapol **itans** , but that’s those people on the other side of the river, so we don’t pay them much attention. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/23 "2007-01-05T16:40:26Z")
Being a native of Indiana makes me a Hoosier (HOO-zher.) Indianian is also correct. I live in Anderson, so I’m an Andersonian. I went to Anderson High School, where the students are called Indians. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/24 "2007-01-05T16:43:24Z")
I know these aren’t specific, but those from Maine and Massachusetts are Yankees. Maine? Down Easter maybe? Utah? I would avoid mentioning them at all cost. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/25 "2007-01-05T16:52:04Z")
New Yorkers is easy enough, but what about Albany? I’ve heard people call themselves Albanians but…already been done and just doesn’t cut it for me. Generally I just say “upstater” anyway, if I have to, though I prefer “from upstate”. ---
**Author:** ![brk913](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/838e76/32.png) [@brk913](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brk913)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/26 "2007-01-05T16:59:12Z")
Connecticut checking in…here we are Connecticutions…I too have heard our neighbors to the north are Massholes (no offense, I didn’t make it up)… ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/27 "2007-01-05T16:59:27Z")
[QUOTE=tbdi] 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. [/QUOTE] A guy I work with is from Maine and he calls the residents of his home state “Mainards” as in, “You ahhn’t really a Mainard until you have three generations in the ground.” ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/28 "2007-01-05T17:01:12Z")
From Maryland, so Marylander… or from Baltimore and Baltimoron. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/29 "2007-01-05T17:01:23Z")
I’m from New Zealand, you can call me a Kiwi, or more formally, a New Zealander. In New Zealand I’m from Otago, I have no idea what we called ourselves. I don’t think we really made much of a distinction about the province. Someone from Auckland was an Aucklander Wellington = Wellingtonian (I think) Dunedin = Dunedinite Christchurch = ? ---
**Author:** ![mittu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@mittu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mittu)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/30 "2007-01-05T17:12:56Z")
I’m from Leeds and i’m called a loiner, the reasons for which aren’t clear but there are some theories: > [@](#): > > - Loiner could derive from the name Loidis (in use by the eighth century for the district around modern-day Leeds). > > - Another explanation says that in the 19th century there were many yards and closes around Briggate whose back entrances were known as Low Ins or Loins, hence Loiner. > > - Yet a third theory is that there were a number of lanes in the Briggate area pronounced loins in the local accent. People who gathered in these loins to gossip were therefore called Loiners. Personally I think it’s because we look great in loincloths. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/31 "2007-01-05T17:22:07Z")
[QUOTE=cmyk] **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? [/QUOTE] …and the Yoopers call us Trolls because we live under the bridge. ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/32 "2007-01-05T17:24:46Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] New Yorkers is easy enough, but what about Albany? I’ve heard people call themselves Albanians but…already been done and just doesn’t cut it for me. Generally I just say “upstater” anyway, if I have to, though I prefer “from upstate”. [/QUOTE] Heh! Lived for a number of years in Altamont (south of Schenectady),and always identified myself a "from **UPSTATE** New York to avoid people thinking I was from NYC if I said just “New Yorker.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/33 "2007-01-05T17:28:45Z")
[QUOTE=KlondikeGeoff] Heh! Lived for a number of years in Altamont (south of Schenectady),and always identified myself a "from **UPSTATE** New York to avoid people thinking I was from NYC if I said just “New Yorker.” 😃 [/QUOTE] That’s why I say it, too, because even New Yorkers think anything north of say, White Plains, is Canada. ---
**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, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/34 "2007-01-05T17:31:37Z")
[QUOTE=MadTheSwine] …and the Yoopers call us Trolls because we live under the bridge. [/QUOTE] I believe that’s against board policy unless in the Pit! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/35 "2007-01-05T17:37:25Z")
I am a Garden Stater or Jersian, occasionally a New Jerseyans. I identify as an Italian-American even though I am only ½ Italian. Ultimately I am an American. Jim ---
**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, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/36 "2007-01-05T17:39:40Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] I’ve been to Wolverhampton. I think I’ll call you unlucky. [/QUOTE] But I do live within walking distance of the best kebab shop in town…shame I don’t eat the blummin’ things! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/37 "2007-01-05T17:47:40Z")
Living in Calgary makes me a Calgarian. Since Calgary is in the province of Alberta, I’m also an Albertan. For a while when I was an Ontarian, I lived in a small town called Stouffville (pronounced STOW-ville). There was always a debate about what those of us who lived in that town were called. The town officials and local media seemed to prefer “Stouffvillites,” but a number of us liked “Stouffvillians” just for fun. Made us sound dangerous. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/38 "2007-01-05T17:49:16Z")
I’m a **Michiganian**. To the point where, when the Detroit Free Press\* writes _Michigander_, I mentally pronounce it _Michiganian_. Michigander just seems silly. - IIRC, they took a poll of their readers to decide which to use. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/39 "2007-01-05T17:50:13Z")
[QUOTE=Spoons] …but a number of us liked “Stouffvillians” [/QUOTE] Whoops, make that “Stouffvillains.” Damn spelling… grumble, grumble ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/40 "2007-01-05T17:54:47Z")
I’m from Florida where we’re know as Florid **ians**. (note the vowel change) I know live in Texas and everyone knows we’re called Texans. I also live in Austin and am an Austinite. For other Texas cities, I think it’s Houstonite, San Antonian, but I’m not sure about Dallas (or Lubbock, for that matter. Lubbobkian? 🙂 ) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820.md?page=3)