# What do you call people from...... Maine, Ohio, Nevada? Can we list them all? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 18, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644 "2005-08-18T19:47:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/41 "2005-08-18T23:45:22Z")
I was googling to see if the word “New Hampshirite” is just something made up by some friends and me, and I found [this site](http://dictionary.reference.com/writing/styleguide/states.html) which claims to have all of the US terms for state residents. And yes, we’re apparently New Hampshirites. (And my neighbors to the south are Massholes only when they’re behind the wheel of a car. 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/42 "2005-08-18T23:50:33Z")
I was a Mainer. Please don’t call me a “Maynard”. OK?? It’s not that it hurts me, it’s just, well, so goddamned _annoying_. You can call me a Masshole, though. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/43 "2005-08-18T23:57:48Z")
> [@Cyros](#): > > I normally associate Québécois as a French Canadian too. I thought Quebecer was more generic “from Quebec”. > > I’m a New Brunswicker, but most people from NB aren’t that specific. We’re Maritimers. I use Québécois to describe most French Canadians, usually from Quebec. However, to describe my own French Canadian roots, I am Acadienne. Often accused of “bad french”. There are some on both sides who look down their noses at each other, but I’m not that snobby. I am also a Maritimer. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/44 "2005-08-18T23:59:58Z")
Oh, yeah - and we call people from Newfoundland (and they have introduced themselves to me, IME) “Newfies”. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/45 "2005-08-19T00:03:37Z")
44 posts, and no love for the Marylanders. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/46 "2005-08-19T00:09:49Z")
Y’know, I lived there for years, and I just realized I either never knew for sure or don’t remember: What, really, should you call someone from Washington D.C.? Washingtonians is certainly used, but aren’t people from WA the true Washingtonians? Columbians? Nahhhh. District-of-Columbians? Seems accurate, but kind of a mouthful. I suggest “Deeceesians”! ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/47 "2005-08-19T00:15:47Z")
What about Utah? Utan’s perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/48 "2005-08-19T00:35:08Z")
Hawaii=Hawaiian, but that doesn’t seem right. We usually refer to Hawaiians as in native Hawaiians, which are a small percent of the population (unless you count 1/16th ancestry calling themselves Hawaiians). As a haole, I don’t think I’d identify myself as a Hawaiian to people from other states. What do you call people from India. I’ve heard the term Hindus. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/49 "2005-08-19T00:35:38Z")
Hindustanis ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/50 "2005-08-19T00:38:20Z")
> [@LilyoftheValley](#): > > I was googling to see if the word “New Hampshirite” is just something made up by some friends and me, and I found [this site](http://dictionary.reference.com/writing/styleguide/states.html) which claims to have all of the US terms for state residents. Bah. That site has me down as a Michiganite? I, in my 30 years, have _never_ heard that one. I’ve always been a “Michigander.” My Armenian ex-girlfriend liked “Michiganian” better. I new a girl from Connecticut once, who I called a “Connecticutie.” She liked that. Happy ---
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/51 "2005-08-19T00:41:22Z")
I grew up in Wyoming, and I was taught in school that a person from Wyoming is a Wyomingite. Sounds like a rock to me. Are people from Oregon Oregonisms? (yuck, yuck) ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/52 "2005-08-19T00:47:13Z")
Oregasms would probably work better. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/53 "2005-08-19T00:49:53Z")
This isn’t related to residents of a state, but it’s close: I live in northeastern Oklahoma, near a town called Bartlesville. Several decades ago, the City Council of Bartlesville decided to hold a public election to choose an official name for the town’s residents. Among the options were “Bartlesvillagers,” “Bartlesvillians,” and “Bartlesvillites.” The winner – a term that is still used – was “Bartians.” I find this strangely amusing. The first thing that occurred to me when I saw the word “Bartians” was this: since Martians come from Mars, is it not logical to assume that Bartians come from bars? ---
**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/54 "2005-08-19T01:12:30Z")
Montana = “Montanan’s” ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/55 "2005-08-19T01:14:56Z")
Another agreement to the note that calling just anyone from Hawaii “Hawaiian” is potentially outright INCORRECT. Other thoughts [in this older thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=315656). ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/56 "2005-08-19T02:10:34Z")
> [@Happy Lendervedder](#): > > Bah. That site has me down as a Michiganite? I, in my 30 years, have _never_ heard that one. > > I’ve always been a “Michigander.” My Armenian ex-girlfriend liked “Michiganian” better. Agreed. The argument has always been between “Michigander” and “Michiganian”. Only an outsider would come up with “Michiganite”. Harumph. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/45deac/32.png) [@Evil\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_One)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/57 "2005-08-19T04:07:01Z")
Arkansan. Not the faux hillbilly affectation “Arkansawyer”. Arkansan. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/58 "2005-08-19T05:09:34Z")
> [@Lucretia](#): > > I never could get a good concensus on what we folks from the great state of Connecticut should be known as. ‘Nutmegger’ was a popular choice, but of course that means nothing to people from outside New England. I always thought ‘Conneticutian’ had style, but no one else seemed to like it. I am one, I like it, and I’ve always used Connecticutian to refer to me my fellow Nutmeggers. As an aside: I always find your name startling, because I once hooked up with a lovely girl who I met through a usenet group – similar in tone to the SDMB – who used Lucretia as her alias. (Actually, she used the full name.) I always do a double-take at your name and check your join date, but alas, you are never her. (I sent her a link to the SDMB two years ago, but she said she couldn’t get the board to load.) > [@Amp](#): > > Someone once told me that people from New England call people from Massachusetts Massholes. Any truth to that? Quit a bit of truth, actually. For revenge, they call us Connecticunts. > [@Phlosphr](#): > > Connecticut = Connecticutite or Connectican … I think… Never heard of either of those. I’ve lived here for over two decades, with a year away thrown in here and there. But I’m much more NY-oriented than Connecticut-oriented, being near the border, so it’s quite possible people use them. That cite somebody posted listed the official resident name as Connecticuter…I have never in my life heard this term. I will be sure and ask everybody I know what they call us, and see if anyone comes up with it. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/59 "2005-08-19T08:07:28Z")
But let’s go international and try to solve a problem that’s been bugging mankind since 1925: In English, what on earth do you call a person from Oslo? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644/60 "2005-08-19T08:24:08Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Another agreement to the note that calling just anyone from Hawaii “Hawaiian” is potentially outright INCORRECT. > > Other thoughts [in this older thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=315656). Yes, “Hawaiian” is about bloodlines, not residency. I was born here and am a “native,” but I never call myself a Hawaiian, as my skin is as white as Conan O’Brien’s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-people-from-maine-ohio-nevada-can-we-list-them-all/317644.md?page=4)