# State Residents Are Called...? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 8, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-residents-are-called/302973 "2005-05-08T22:30:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-residents-are-called/302973/1 "2005-05-08T22:30:05Z")
Virginia: easy, Virginians Florida: Floridians Indiana: ? Maine: ? New Hampshire: ? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-residents-are-called/302973/2 "2005-05-08T22:34:43Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Virginia: easy, Virginians > Florida: Floridians > > Indiana: ? > Maine: ? > New Hampshire: ? Merriam Webster gives both Indianans and Indianians; Mainer; and both New Hampshireman and New Hampshirite. ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-residents-are-called/302973/3 "2005-05-08T22:35:26Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Maine: ? Mainiacs? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-residents-are-called/302973/4 "2005-05-08T22:35:54Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > New Hampshireman “Who…who are you?” “I’m New Hampshireman!” ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-residents-are-called/302973/5 "2005-05-08T22:38:27Z")
[I found this.](http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0855542.html) ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-residents-are-called/302973/6 "2005-05-08T22:46:26Z")
Referencing the above link, If anyone ever refers to me as a “New Jerseyite,” I’ll hit them. The proper term is “New Jerseyan.” Also, a “Maineiac” is a resident solely of Maine, i.e. one who was born in Maine and lived there for their entire life to date. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-residents-are-called/302973/7 "2005-05-08T22:54:24Z")
For Indiana, I’d use Hoosier. The word has been around well long enough to be an accepted part of formal speech and not merely slang. I suppose that in some sort of hyper-formal situation one might choose to say _citizen/resident of the State of Indiana_, but in any other context, Hoosier is the appropriate word. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-residents-are-called/302973/8 "2005-05-08T22:58:10Z")
Here’s where it gets tricky: Hawaii? ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-residents-are-called/302973/9 "2005-05-09T00:09:08Z")
> [@](#): > > Merriam Webster gives both Indianans and Indianians; Merriam is dead wrong about that one. As a Hoosier myself, I can assure you we never call ourselves Indianans. ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-residents-are-called/302973/10 "2005-05-09T00:18:27Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Merriam Webster gives both Indianans and Indianians; Mainer; and both New Hampshireman and New Hampshirite. I’m from NH, so I’ll confirm that we are indeed New Hampshirites. However, I’ve never heard the term New Hampshireman. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-residents-are-called/302973/11 "2005-05-09T00:51:11Z")
I am not a North Carolinian…I’m a Tarheel and durn proud of it. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_Stimulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Digital\_Stimulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_Stimulus)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-residents-are-called/302973/12 "2005-05-09T00:52:23Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Here’s where it gets tricky: Hawaii? Yeah, “Hawaiian” doesn’t really work for _haoles_ (or other non-blood-quantized Hawaiians). Having lived there for six years, I can say that residents call other residents _locals_. For the businesses, residents are _kamaai’na_ (hope I got that diacritical mark right). When visiting the mainland, it was always – “I live in Hawaii”; the oohs and ahhs that followed were always enough that I never worried about what to call myself. 🙂 When I lived there, I’d never tell someone that I was Hawaiian – it seemed sorta disrespectful to me. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-residents-are-called/302973/13 "2005-05-09T01:26:40Z")
According to that link, I’m a Pennsylvanian, but I’ve never once been a singer in the troupe organized by the late Fred Waring. I propose that we be collectively known as the Feebs, because the legislature in Harrisburg seems to view us as too feeble minded to effect our own decisions without another law to oversee it. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-residents-are-called/302973/14 "2005-05-09T01:40:02Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > “Who…who are you?” > > “I’m New Hampshireman!” I suppose now it should be New Hampshireperson. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-residents-are-called/302973/15 "2005-05-09T01:43:49Z")
Buckeyes. And just don’t TOUCH the ‘Delawarian/Delawarite’ issue. That one’s tricky. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Kenneth\_Noisewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@Dr.Kenneth\_Noisewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Kenneth_Noisewater)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-residents-are-called/302973/16 "2005-05-09T03:52:45Z")
A fair amount of circumlocution (citizens of \_\_\_, \_\_\_ residents) is necessary unless you’re dying to call them Wyomingians. The same goes for cities where you get into even bigger trouble (or even more fun depending on your perspective). ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-residents-are-called/302973/17 "2005-05-09T04:16:49Z")
> [@Jonathan Chance](#): > > And just don’t TOUCH the ‘Delawarian/Delawarite’ issue. That one’s tricky. Delahoovian is right out. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-residents-are-called/302973/18 "2005-05-09T05:24:33Z")
And what about the lovely ladies from Idaho? What would they be called? Hmmm? ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-residents-are-called/302973/19 "2005-05-09T05:42:34Z")
> [@Spatial Rift 47](#): > > Also, a “Maineiac” is a resident solely of Maine, i.e. one who was born in Maine and lived there for their entire life to date. A Mainer is one who stays in Maine to enjoy the beautiful spring, summer, and fall weather. A Maineiac is one who stays for the winter too. bibliophage Maineiac ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-residents-are-called/302973/20 "2005-05-09T07:33:57Z")
> [@Jonathan Chance](#): > > And just don’t TOUCH the ‘Delawarian/Delawarite’ issue. That one’s tricky. May I propose “Delawarriors”? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/state-residents-are-called/302973.md?page=2)