# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/101 "2010-07-15T14:46:08Z")
Californian. Born in La Jolla, lived in San Diego and San Jose all my life, except for a couple of years in Hawaii. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/102 "2010-07-15T14:50:26Z")
Various places around Toronto (with varying degrees of factuality): Torontonian Oshawan Whitbyite Bramptonian Oakvillian Suttonian Waterloovian [del]Kitchenette[/del] Kitchenerite? [del]Mississa[/del] [del]Mississaugian[/del] Mississaugan ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/103 "2010-07-15T15:11:06Z")
> [@Erie\_Canary](#): > > 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? Someone from Utah; same way you are someone from Georgia. And unless you happen to live next to some of my cousins in the Republic, you aren’t Georgian. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/104 "2010-07-15T15:42:54Z")
> [@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.” 😃 I’m a native New Yorker myself, born in Plattsburgh, which is about as “upstate” as you can get. As a current resident Virginian, people here have trouble comprehending that that part of New York even _exists_. South of the Mason-Dixon, I’ll usually describe it as “upstate New York just south of Canada”. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/105 "2010-07-15T15:52:46Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Various places around Toronto (with varying degrees of factuality): > > Torontonian > Oshawan > Whitbyite > Bramptonian > Oakvillian > Suttonian > Waterloovian > [del]Kitchenette[/del] Kitchenerite? > [del]Mississa[/del] [del]Mississaugian[/del] Mississaugan Based on this in the last decade I have been a Torontonian, a Whitbyite and am currently a Bramptonian. I was born in a little town east of Toronto called Cobourg which means I was born a Cobourgian. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/106 "2010-07-15T16:36:29Z")
> [@Erie\_Canary](#): > > 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? 😕😕😕 I grew up in Massachusetts. I always thought of myself as a New Englander. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/107 "2010-07-15T16:54:18Z")
I was born in Georgia (the state in the USA) and I was taught that my state’s demonym is ‘Georgian’. I am also an Atlantan by birth and an Athenian by choice. Georgia has quite a number of interesting town names, one of which is [Social Circle](http://www.socialcirclegeorgia.citymax.com/History.html). I wonder what they call themselves? Social Circlians? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/108 "2010-07-15T17:19:37Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > Based on this in the last decade I have been a Torontonian, a Whitbyite and am currently a Bramptonian. I was born in a little town east of Toronto called Cobourg which means I was born a Cobourgian. Cobourg! One of the legendary beaches! (Cousin of a friend lives there and we went there a few times for Canada Day.) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/109 "2010-07-15T17:41:11Z")
> [@David\_Simmons](#): > > I know these aren’t specific, but those from Maine and Massachusetts are Yankees. Maine? Down Easter maybe? Don’t call us Yankees. We don’t like it much better than southerners like being called Rednecks. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/110 "2010-07-15T17:41:41Z")
Okay, zombie thread… I currently live in Ann Arbor, MI. I’m not sure what people from here call themselves because I don’t really know any. Ann Arborites, maybe? Townies? I’m definitely not one. I’m a San Franciscan. My parents are from LA, so they’re Angelenos. ---
**Author:** ![rayman5321](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@rayman5321](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayman5321)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/111 "2010-07-15T19:17:37Z")
> [@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? Lower Michigan people are known as Trolls because they live under the bridge. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/112 "2010-07-15T19:28:37Z")
Texan, through and through. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/113 "2010-07-15T19:33:23Z")
I’m an Ohioan . . . but since I spent most of my adult years in NYC, I’m at heart still a New Yorker (either a Manhattanite, a Brooklynite, or a LonGylander). ---
**Author:** ![rayman5321](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@rayman5321](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayman5321)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/114 "2010-07-15T20:52:02Z")
> [@Baracus](#): > > 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. Where in NC do you live? ---
**Author:** ![rayman5321](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@rayman5321](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayman5321)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/115 "2010-07-15T20:54:04Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > Are people from Albion, Michigan called “Albionos?” No, people from the Upper Peninsula are albinos. ---
**Author:** ![rayman5321](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@rayman5321](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayman5321)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/116 "2010-07-15T20:57:49Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > In a 1976 poll conducted by Prof. George Javor of Northern Michigan U. asking what they like to call themselves, 90% voted for Michigander. 7% for Michiganian. > > There was a piece of legislation introduced into the MI House in 1979 by Casmer Ogonowski. It actually got a vote 50-32 to use Michiganian as the Official term. I haven’t found a cite yet as to whether it ever made it through the Senate and/or to then Gov. Milliken. > > All my info comes from newspaper stories at the time over at Newspaperarchive(pay site). We’re Michiganians. ---
**Author:** ![rayman5321](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@rayman5321](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayman5321)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/117 "2010-07-15T21:01:21Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Don’t call us Yankees. We don’t like it much better than southerners like being called Rednecks. I agree! ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Stilettos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Red\_Stilettos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Stilettos)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/118 "2010-07-16T00:41:51Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > I was born in Georgia (the state in the USA) and I was taught that my state’s demonym is ‘Georgian’. > > I am also an Atlantan by birth and an Athenian by choice. > > Georgia has quite a number of interesting town names, one of which is [Social Circle](http://www.socialcirclegeorgia.citymax.com/History.html). > I wonder what they call themselves? Social Circlians? Another strange Georgia town: Rockmart which is inhabited by Rockmartians! Personally, I’m an Atlantan. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/119 "2010-07-16T00:57:29Z")
Yay zombie! I’m a Canadian/Canadienne, Quebecer/Québécoise, Montrealer/Montréalaise (males would be Canadien, Québécois and Montréalais). ---
**Author:** ![SantaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@SantaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SantaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820/120 "2010-07-17T06:34:18Z")
> [@tremorviolet](#): > > 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? 🙂 ) How about Lubbite? d&r [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-georgia-georgian-what-are-you/386820.md?page=7)