Michiganders actually were sometimes called Michiganians (much like Texians) several years before statehood, but Michigander won out until Governor Silly Billy Milli ken decided to restore the effete “Michiganian” as the official term around 1980.
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I looked, but couldn’t find support for any of the bolded part online. Do you have a cite for Michigander being more popular prior to 1980, for Michiganian being the official term, or for Governor Milliken being responsible for making it so?
Actually, This looks like a promising site for answering the questions in my previous post, but you need paid access to see beyond the first page. Anyone here have access?
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Residents of Dallas are “Dallasites”.
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That isn’t what I called the one in the auto ahead of me who slowed down drastically in the on-ramp to an expressway.
[QUOTE=What Exit?]
I am a Garden Stater or Jersian, occasionally a New Jerseyans.
I identify as an Italian-American even though I am only ½ Italian.
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I think these two facts (coming from NJ and self-identifying as Italian-American) may be connected. The Jerseyites I knew (I’m a Marylander) seemed to adhere to the “one-drop” policy when determining who was Italian.
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I think these two facts (coming from NJ and self-identifying as Italian-American) may be connected. The Jerseyites I knew (I’m a Marylander) seemed to adhere to the “one-drop” policy when determining who was Italian.
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I thought that was more of a New York thing where you did not want to be considered a WASP if white so assured the world knew you were either Italian, Irish, Jewish or Puerto Rican.
[QUOTE=Biggirl]
A New Yorker Brooklynite. I ws born in The Bronx which qualifies me as a Boogiedowner.
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I was born in da Bronx, but I do not think I qualify as a Boogiedowner.
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper]
Do you guys still go around telling everyone “I’m from Jersey, you from Jersey? I’m from Jersey!”
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Never, no really we never did.
[spoiler]It was “Are you from Joisey? I’m from Joisey”
We also talk about what exit(s) we live by and going to the shore.[/spoiler]
[QUOTE=Biggirl]
You may have been born in The Bronx but were you born in The Boogie Down Bronx?
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Nah, I was born and lived up on Baychester Ave. Mostly Italian with some Jewish and Black at the time. Nice neighborhood back then. Pre-Boogie days. New York is in my blood, but that means more the Zoo, the Yanks, the Streets and the fast walking, not the soul or the boogie.
[QUOTE=1920s Style “Death Ray”]
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 = ?
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Yes, I’m an Aucklander. Someone from Christchurch is (drum roll) a Christchurchian. And those from Otago are Otagoans. Hamiltonians share the pain of Wellingtonians.
[QUOTE=Ice Wolf]
Someone from Christchurch is (drum roll) a Christchurchian.
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Interesting. I never heard that term while I lived in NZ. If anything the one I heard was Cantabrian for all those from the Canterbury province.
Sydney, for some obscure reason, gives rise to the term Sydneysider. And I’ve heard New South Welshman used too, although it hardly rolls off the tongue. I just say “Australian, from Sydney”.
I’m a Georgian. But the interesting thing is, there’s a town in Georgia I’m not from. It’s called Unadilla. You can look it up. Are these folks Unadillies? Or Unadildoes?
Folks from Talking Rock, Georgia, are of course Talking Rockers.
Folks from Enigma, Georgia are Enigmans. (Used to call 'em Enigmers, but … there were problems.)
Folks from Warwoman Dell are of course the Farmers in the Dell.
Folks from Ty Ty, Georgia, are of course, Wich-a-tytos. There’s a song about 'em.
