Ultress sed:
And she is smart and tuff too! Better back off making fun of North Carolinians.
New Jerseyites??? Puh-leez!
I second the motion to put away the dictionary.
Here in the Garden State, we are New Jerseyans. But we rarely call ourselves that. We prefer to call ourselves “The poor pathetic depressed sub-humans who suffer under the iron thumb of that hypocritical self-aggrandizing lying bitch who unfortunately is the governor at the moment.”
Or, we just say “people from Jersey.”
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Dutchmen, which is interesting since the state is called The Netherlands (no, not Holland. That’s only two provinces out of 11).
We’re pretty boring: Kentuckians.
Across the river, of course, they avoid the bulky “Indianian” by calling themselves “Hoosiers”. Hoosier, as it happens, is an old Indian word meaning “state with loud abusive basketball coach”.
Dr. J
I’m from New Jersey (even though I live in PA, I am still from NJ) I tend to use Jersey Girl alot, but only the female population can use that one, so I suppose New Jerseyan would best suite everyone or like others said, “from Jersey” (we don’t all have that North Jersey accent ya’know) And I suppose people from PA would use Pennsylvanian, or perhaps Amish, Pennsylvania Dutch, Pennsylvania German, Steeler, Keystoner, 76er, who knows.
We’re not just Ohioans- We’re Buckeyes! Even though I don’t even like the team…
Oh yea, Exit 9 off the NJ TPK
Virginia??? I think it’s stupid drivers!!!
Dictionary.com had nothing to say about most of the uncommon states we have mentioned here (Louisiana, Maine, Connecticut & Wyoming to name but a few), so Wood Thrush pretty much did not cover this one, thank you very much.
Furthermore, I was after human feedback & maybe even a little state pride, things you don’t often find in reference books.
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I’m from Texas.
We’re called “superior”.
Bibliophage, I’m afraid you have it wrong. Da Ace and Snark correctly report that people from Utah are “Utahns”. I used to live there, and that’s the only form I ever saw in the newspapers. It bothered me at first, but Utah is a little off-kilter in a lot of ways, so I came to see it as another amusing idiosyncrasy.
On the other hand, I’ve got to reprimand Da Ace about “Joisey”. NOBODY in Nw Jersey talks that way. I lived there, too (Exit 9, just like Psycat90), and new heard that “Brooklyn” accent. In fact, I’ve never heard it in Brooklyn, either.
Most people say they’re “from Jersey”, but I like Ambrose Bierce’s suggestion of “Jerseyman”. It sounds more euphonious than the alternatives.
Wrong. You’re called:
The Guys That Got Their Asses Kicked at the Alamo.
Michiganian, some may say.
Michigander, others may cluck.
Me? I’m a Michi-duck.
Well, people who are from Tennessee and/or live in the state year round are called (gasp) Tennesseeans or “Vols” for the Volunteers. The really rude, older people who can’t drive that migrate here from Florida in the summer and fall are called Floridiots.
Which only proves you’ve found an idiot broadcaster, which is rather like finding a dirty diaper if you’re a new parent: wholly unsurprising, but somewhat distateful nonetheless.
The most common collective term for residents of Arkansas is, as you suggest, “Arkansan”, pronounced as you indicate. Two of Arkansas’s best writers (I heard that “contradiction in terms” comment, you), poet John Gould Fletcher and novelist Donald Harington, prefer “Arkansawyer”, which among other merits at least sounds similar to the way the name of the state is pronounced (per a resolution of the Arkansas state legislature very soon after admission to the Union in 1836), instead of sounding like that other state up the Arkansas River.
For bonus points, explain why my user name would have indicated that I’d reply to the post above.
I guess it makes me a “Melburnian” or “Melbournian”
Correction for Wisconsin. Only the people wearing green and gold, with a chunk of foam on their heads are Cheeseheads.
Vermonter (ver MON 'er) here, reporting for duty. And, as jayron noted, all out of staters are “Flatlanders.” Also, anyone from the “Big City,” ie: Burlington, population 62,000, is ALSO a Flatlander. As the daughter of two Flatlanders (from New York, no less, an even greater sin) I am a Flatlander by association. I’m sure if I stopped pronouncing my "t"s and started fishing a lot, I could rid myself of the title, but…eh.
Thank you ultress. You are right.
During the Revolutionary War a certain General Green led Colonial troops against the British being generaled by Cornwalis. It’s known as the battle of Guilford Courthouse. The Rebels were outnumbered. Their mission was not so much to defeat the Reds, as to slow them down. They did that, and thus gave Washington time to get the better ground at Williamsburg. That was where America won its independence. The army in North Carolina did not retreat until it had to, they were known as “tar-heels”.
In truth I am not originally from NC, but I have lived here longer than any other place. I was born in Savannah, Georgia. In my experience, those from GA are known as “peaches”. As in, “I’m a Georgia Peach”. It is, after all, on the liscence plate. Savannah is one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
(Gasp!)… you mean… there are other states? I always thought there were just “Texans” and “Not Texans”!