# What are people from your city/town/area called? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 3, 2005, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883 "2005-09-03T10:48:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Pixisis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@Pixisis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixisis)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/21 "2005-09-03T16:12:11Z")
> [@Celyn](#): > > You mean you know me, or you mean you know a Glaswegian in the real world? i meant i know a Glaswegian in the real world … but, let’s up my anty … Hi ! I’m Pixisis. Pleased to meet you. 😉 > [@Celyn](#): > > Are people from the State of Confusion Confegians, I wonder? 🙂 Confugians 😃 ---
**Author:** ![liberty3701](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@liberty3701](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liberty3701)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/22 "2005-09-03T16:23:45Z")
I grew up on the Jersey Shore, so I was a _local_ and everyone who was not from the Shore but went down the Shore was a _Bennie_ (NOT a polite term, for the record; don’t bandy this word about). I now live in Raleigh, so we’re most of us who live here are called _Yankees_. My old roommate who was a triangle local had a particularly impolite term for people like me, but I’ve blocked it from my memory. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/23 "2005-09-03T16:26:44Z")
> [@liberty3701](#): > > … My old roommate who was a triangle local … A trianglo-saxon? ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/24 "2005-09-03T16:28:54Z")
Bubba. Even the girls. ---
**Author:** ![liberty3701](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@liberty3701](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liberty3701)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/25 "2005-09-03T16:30:39Z")
> [@Celyn](#): > > A trianglo-saxon? That made me giggle. Ok, Ok, I snorted. 😛 I forget people can’t read my mind: Triangle (or Triad) = Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, NC. She was a Durhamite? Durhamian? Durhmaniac? ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/26 "2005-09-03T16:35:38Z")
I’ve heard 2 different terms: Gallatonians Gallatonites ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/27 "2005-09-03T16:45:15Z")
Lawrencian. Kansas Citian. We’re not to clever around here. People who live in the city of St Louis call people who live in the county Bubbas. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/28 "2005-09-03T16:50:19Z")
Boiseans, Idahoans, nothing too odd or unusual. What about people from Truth of Consequences, New Mexico? Truth-or-Consequencians? ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/29 "2005-09-03T17:20:57Z")
In Earlimart, CA, we are Earlimartians. In Fresno, Fresnans. Cyn, former Earlimartian. ---
**Author:** ![partlycloudy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/partlycloudy/32/3114_2.png) [@partlycloudy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/partlycloudy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/30 "2005-09-03T17:26:18Z")
From Tampa: Tampanian, Tamponian, or just plain Tampon. In Baton Rouge: I don’t know, but I’ve wondered this myself. Baton Rouge-ians? Well, half of us are “New Orleanians” now. ---
**Author:** ![sundog66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@sundog66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sundog66)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/31 "2005-09-03T17:34:21Z")
Santa…Barbarians? “Santa Barbarian” actually gets slightly more Google hits than “Santa Barbaran” at the time of this posting. Cool. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/32 "2005-09-03T17:44:02Z")
Just plain ol’ Memphians. Although I’ve heard SOME folks refer to us as Memphricans, but that’s not very nice. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/33 "2005-09-03T18:47:40Z")
Commuters. ---
**Author:** ![PigBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@PigBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigBoy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/34 "2005-09-03T19:44:03Z")
I’m from Dayton, Ohio- those people are called Daytonians. I’ve recently come to Madison, Wisconsin. I don’t know what people here are supposed to be called… I just call them hippies. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/35 "2005-09-03T19:59:14Z")
> [@Celyn](#): > > Glasgow \>\>\> Glaswegian. No, it doesn’t make much sense to me either. 😕 In the same vein, I know that folk from Galway are called Galwegians. It must be a Celtic thing … People from Dublin, Ireland are Dubliners or jackeens, while people from the country (yes, even Cork) are called cultchies. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/36 "2005-09-03T20:20:17Z")
Oxonians. Don’t ask me why … I’ve also lived in Liverpool (Liverpudlians or scousers), Newcastle (Geordies, or very rarely Novocastrians) and Buckinghamshire (toffee-nosed stuck-up Southern ponces). ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/37 "2005-09-03T20:20:37Z")
Tasmanian folk use Taswegian a bit. It started off as a cutesy thing, but I think it’s gone a little beyond that now. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/38 "2005-09-03T21:00:20Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > Dunno. Stone Mountaineers? UPDATE. Apparantly we’re just called “Stone Mountain residents.” Blech. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/39 "2005-09-03T21:25:58Z")
“Bremertonians” Although there is a class of citizens that have gained a certain notoriety, thanks to rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot, known as [Bremelos](http://lyrics.duble.com/S/sirmixalotlyrics/sirmixalotbremelolyrics.htm) According to the [Rap Dictionary](http://www.rapdict.org), a Bremelo is: > [@](#): > > Term for large women from Bremerton, WA, a working-class town with a Naval Base. It is a mix of Bremertonian and buffalo. > > More commonly, a Bremelo is a trashy woman from Bremerton who is trying to get with a Navy man so she can be supported for the rest of her life, or she is a woman married to a navy man and she whores herself when her husband is out to sea. Think “An Officer and a Gentleman”, which was filmed near here. [http://www.bremelo.com/](http://www.bremelo.com/) ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883/40 "2005-09-03T21:32:19Z")
> [@Cyn](#): > > In Earlimart, CA, we are Earlimartians. > In Fresno, Fresnans. > > Cyn, former Earlimartian. :: waves ::: Hey hey, did you see that-- didya? Didya? 😉 We’re Bakersfieldians. Or- to the rest of California- rednecks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-people-from-your-city-town-area-called/319883.md?page=3)