From Georgia=Georgian. What are you?

[blondebear]

Californian. Born in La Jolla, lived in San Diego and San Jose all my life, except for a couple of years in Hawaii.

[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

[kopek]

@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.

[Roland_Orzabal]

@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”.

[Moonlitherial]

@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.

[Skammer]

@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.

[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.
I wonder what they call themselves? Social Circlians?

[Sunspace]

@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.)

[elfkin477]

@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.

[Kyla]

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.

[rayman5321]

@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.

[Clothahump]

Texan, through and through.

[panache45]

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).

[rayman5321]

@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?

[rayman5321]

@pravnik

Are people from Albion, Michigan called “Albionos?”

No, people from the Upper Peninsula are albinos.

[rayman5321]

@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.

[rayman5321]

@elfkin477

Don’t call us Yankees. We don’t like it much better than southerners like being called Rednecks.

I agree!

[Red_Stilettos]

@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.
I wonder what they call themselves? Social Circlians?

Another strange Georgia town: Rockmart which is inhabited by Rockmartians!

Personally, I’m an Atlantan.

[mnemosyne]

Yay zombie!

I’m a Canadian/Canadienne, Quebecer/Québécoise, Montrealer/Montréalaise (males would be Canadien, Québécois and Montréalais).

[SantaMan]

@tremorviolet

I’m from Florida where we’re know as Floridians. (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?
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