I always just called them “Mormons.” 
That spelling and pronounciation looks off…I always thought I was Illinoisan, pronounced ill, annoyin’!
I always pronounced Illinoisian as “those drooling imbeciles mooning around that grim grey godforsaken soul-lacking pustulent stinking sewage hole of a state” but then I wasn’t in the best frame of mind when I was forced to live there against my will for two years in my mid-teens.
I’m a Missourian, born and bred. We don’t really talk about other states much, because until we’ve seen them ourselves, we refuse to believe they exist. 
“Buckeye” is certainly more common in general usage – though it has the disadvantage that it can also refer to OSU or its football team – but “Ohioan” is also used a lot round here.
Occasionally they call us Flatlanders. My Maine cousin is fond of the word Masshole. The funny thing is that his parents and their friends all moved to Maine from Massachusetts before he was born, but the irony seems to escape him. :rolleyes:
This is the one that I hear the most when folks from Massachusetts refer to themselves. Anything else is just too awkward.
Hmmmm… I know that we Illinoisians refer to people from Wisconsin as “Cheeseheads” collectively, and they refer to us with the much better F.I.S.H. (Fckin’ Illinois Sht Heads”
Just to note, Floridan and Floridian are both acceptable variations used to describe people from the state of Florida. Floridan is the “old time” term and has fallen out of favor in the last 70 years or so.
Also, that “Michiganite” term is all kinds of wrong. Everyone knows a female from Michigan is called a “Michigoose” and the male of the species is a “Michigander”.
I thought maybe it was “down easters”.
I’ve usually used FIB (Fkin’ Illinois Btard). FISH usually comes into play only in the specific circumstance of a FISHTAB (F**kin’ Illinois Sh*thead Towing A Boat). 'Cause apparently there aren’t any lakes in Illinois.
Sure there are, but we enjoy our occaisonal excursions to Wisconsin, Illinois Largest State Park
Back in my Massachusetts youth, I heard “Massachusite.” Mostly we used “New Englander.” Nobody from Boston is ever anything but a “Bostonian.”
Tom Waits and Springsteen have given us “Jersey Girl.”
It hasn’t been called “Hindustan” since the late 19th century really… so Indian. Not every Indian in India is Hindu.
A cave formation’s what I thought, too, and I could never bring myself to say it. Got around it with the “I live in Wyoming” dodge.
ko, Pacific Northwesterner now
I grew up in Ohio and “Ohioan” was the regular term. We rarely called ourselves Buckeyes, but it was optional. Mostly, though, “Buckeye” is used to refer specifically to Ohio State University.
I’ve heard the “what exit” thing many times, but I never got the idea that it was meant to be insulting. Why is it offensive? I usually hear it from New Jerseyans. Why would they be insulting themselves?
:dubious: I think “Indian” is a rather well-known term these days.
I just say “people from Hawaii.”
In my experience, people from other states refer to us as “you lucky bastards.”
Odd. I’ve always heard it as “people who haven’t moved to Calgary yet”…
Rhode Islander checking in.
Have been:
*New Yawker
Pennsylvanian
Joisey Boy
Pittsburgher *(No, it’s not the same as being a Pennsylvanian)
*New Mexican
Texan
Bay Stater / Massachusite / Masshole *(depending on who you asked)
I got curious and started to look around.
State of Indiana website currently contains an article on it’s homepage titled “Protecting Hoosiers from Methamphetamines.” A search on the term “hoosier” gets you about 20900 results. Search for Indianan gets you 27 results and the question “Did you mean Indiana?”. In at least one result “Indianan” is a typo. Several refer to the Indianan Code, so that sounds like it’s the formal legal term. One result on the first results page asks the very-stilted (to me, at least) sounding question: “Why Should Any Given Indianan Care, Especially Those Who Are Not Overweight/Obese?” from a summit on obesity. So I’d say Hoosier is probably the accepted term.
I’m a native Michigander (Michiganite is a new one on me too) who is now an Ohioan. I agree that Buckeyes are primarily OSU fans.
Did the same kind of search on Michigan’s website. Michiganite got 0 results, Michiganian 131, Michigander 61. I think Michigander sounds less formal…
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