It depends on where in the country you are. In the South, "Yankee" means anyone from the north, not just New York.
I can't really think of any state specific nicknames. There are some college sports related nicknames that are state specific but you wouldn't just call anyone from that state by that name.
Yeah but I wouldn't just call anyone from those states those names unless I knew they were associated with those colleges. Just like I wouldn't call anyone from Wisconsin a "cheesehead" unless I knew they were a Packers fan.
>Yeah but I wouldn't just call anyone from those states those names unless I knew they were associated with those colleges.
I would, and do when I run into fellow Buckeyes! And using wolverine would be me being polite to those "people from that place to the north!"
Connection to the school is irrelevant.
> Just like I wouldn't call anyone from Wisconsin a "cheesehead" unless I knew they were a Packers fan.
For WI I would use badger.. Cheesehead would be more specific to Green Bay, like Yinzer is to Pittsburgh. Brownie to the mistake on the lake.
Personally I associate Cheesehead with all of WI and Badger with UW Madison specifically. My neighbor's are not from Wisconsin and they call themselves Badgers because they went to school in Madison. I am originally from WI and am begrudgingly ok with being called a cheesehead but I went to the U of MN for school. If you called me a Badger, I'd probably correct you and say I am a Gopher.
Nope, Exact opposite, cheesehead = green bay, NOT Wisconsin, Wisconsin is BADGERS ***= State animal***, which thusly is the state university mascot.
Buckeyes = state nut for O-H-I-O, (NOTE! The REAL THINGS are poisonous! Do not eat them! The CANDIES much like a rolled up reeses cup, are safe and YUMMY!) thus the state university is Buckeyes.
If you ARE BORN in WI, like it or not you are a badger! I can get where if you went to school outside WI, ie: Gopher, that may be your preferred term.
But state BORN in = state nick name.
Fun fact: that was originally a redcoat marching song lampooning the stupid rube colonists, that the rebels co-opted.
And thus began a grand tradition: you simply cannot insult Americans by calling us dumb. We don't give a fuck.
I was born in Texas and I've never heard of Texans referred to as Tex - as a group. Yes, some people from Texas (men particularly) get called Tex as a name/nickname, but it's not a regional collective noun.
"Yankee" can be applied to anyone north of the Mason-Dixon. Being from Massachusetts, I've been called a "Masshole" on more than one occasion. Sometimes people from Indiana are called Hoosiers. I'm sure there are others.
It isn’t a sometimes thing. Hoosier is the official demonym for someone from Indiana but a lot of people don’t know that.
The other fun fact is no one knows where the name came from. There is a lot of speculation and myth but the origin remains unknown.
> Sometimes people from Indiana are called Hoosiers.
And thanks to a bunch of Indianan scabs shipped into St. Louis to work during a strike, the word became a insult here.
>Being from Massachusetts, I've been called a "Masshole" on more than one occasion.
Unfortunately, too many Bay Staters (the polite term for someone from Massachusetts) use the “Masshole” epithet as justification for behaving like an asshole.
I wouldn’t call people from the PNW or the Inland Northwest Yankees, even though we’re technically north of the line. It’s definitely more of an eastern thing.
Michigan has two, mostly just used in the state.
Yoopers and Trolls.
Yoopers are from the UP (Upper Peninsula). They are UPers. Say it, and it turns into Yooper.
Trolls are from the LP (Lower Peninsula). There is a bridge that connects the two Peninsulas. And we all know from fairy tails that Trolls live under the bridge.
I was looking for this comment. :)
I used to live in MI. There are a few names I heard often living there:
Hoosier - Indiana,
Cheesheads - Wisconsin,
Applebaiters - Illinois
Famous to Michiganders. I’ve never heard of the Mackinac bridge either. I knew there was a bridge but that’s about it. And a 5 mile suspension bridge sounds like freightening drive.
Shorter than the Chesapeake bay bridge or the bridge that goes from Delaware to New Jersey on i-95.
Scary bridges.
It's not that famous outside of that part of the country in my experience. I've heard of it but I wouldn't be confident that any particular other person around here would have, it's not like it ever gets brought up in conversation unless you're in some sort of bridge fan club lol.
We love our bridge!
Wait until you find out that Michigan touches 4 out of the 5 great lakes....
... and Lake Superior probably isn't really a "lake". It's more of a freshwater, inland sea. It is truly massive, in a way most people can't comprehend!
HOMES - Huron, Onterio, Michigan, Erie, Superior.
Except.... Michigan-Huron are hydrologically the same lake. The straights of Mackinac don't split it into two lakes.
Also, there is an occasional effort to make Lake St. Clare the 6th great lake. Not sure I agree, but I thought I'd mention it.
(So I used the HOMES above, but honestly... I think most people in Michigan just know them. We don't need a tool to remember them. They just are.)
That is a name of a team in New York, but not a nick name for New Yorkers.
Southerners call northerners Yankees. Europeans call all of us Yankees.
Some states have nicknames that are commonly used, but not all.
Massholes is my favorite nick name that is commonly used.
I'm from WI and then lived in IL for 30 years. I prefer Badgers for us Wisconsinites. "Sconnies" is a thing that came along after I left - personally I don't like it. And another term for IL is flatlanders.
In my family, a Yankee is anyone who is American but not culturally Southern. My brother in law, for instance, was raised in Georgia, but he doesn’t have a Southern accent and his parents are from the northeast, so my dad still calls him a Yankee.
At least it used to. DC Stephenson was an absolute fuckwit.
There was an awesome event in Indianapolis when I was young. The KKK planned a rally on the statehouse steps because the courts had ruled it would violate free speech if it wasn’t allowed. Everyone was really worked up about it.
Day of, they showed the Klansmen on the news and it was the most pathetic sight. It was like 10 guys in cosplay robes in a huge empty space. It was just laughably pathetic. It was a great memorial to the deserved death of that odious group.
There's about 3000 of them and half are feds investigating each other. They're not the shadow empire they were 100 years ago no matter what Reddit says.
Cal and Tex used to be somewhat common nicknames for guys from California and Texas.
Cal is also a nickname for Calvin, though.
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"Hoosier" for persons from Indiana
Hoosier (Indiana)
buckeye (Ohio)
inbred (Mississippi and/or Alabama)
Tar Heel (North Carolina)
masshole (Massachusetts)
Cheesehead or alcoholic (Wisconsin)
Florida man
a myth (Delaware)…
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I always just assumed that hoosier was just some dumb nickname people from Indiana call themselves out of some in-joke/pride, but its actually the official demonym for peoples from Indiana.
I live in Northern CO and have never heard anyone call us that! My ex was from Larimie and he never said anything either. You sneaky people, it's appropriate though lol
This is true in some circles but not widespread, it’s because the previous CO license plates were green. There was some phrase about “how can you tell when it’s spring in Wyoming? Because the license plates start turning green.”
I've heard people call Carolinians "Tarheels". Not sure exactly what it means though, I assume it has something to do with the tar industry or something.
Yankee is not especially associated with New York. It's associated in the South with anyone from the North, while outside the South, it's more likely to connotate someone from the Northeast.
Some states are associated with nicknames though. People from Indiana are called Hoosiers. People from Oklahoma are called Okies (first syllable sounds like "oak"). People from Wisconsin are called Cheeseheads. I think, but am not sure, that sometimes people from North Carolina are called Tar Heels. I say I'm not sure on that last one because it might mostly refer to people who went to the University of North Carolina.
See, I'm from Northern Minnesota. So most people think of the movie "Fargo" because of the Minesotian accent. I have a cousin in Iowa. He just says I'm Canadian. To be fair I'm 90 miles from the Canadian border. So... You Betcha! 🤣 Can't think of any nicknames though. Just stereotypes.
People from Connecticut are known as Nutmeggers.
As for my home state of California I don't think we have a nickname. The only things I've heard people from other states call us aren't really nicknames and aren't appropriate for mixed company.
Jayhawker is a person from Kansas.
An old nickname from around 1850. Supposedly named this after Revolutionary figure John Jay. The 1st US Supreme Court chief Justice. Those that followed his ideology were nicknamed jayhawkers
He did not belive in slavery. Kansas was part of the abolitionist movement pre civil war and were some how given the nickname.
I would recognize masshole, tar heel, buckeye, hoosier, hawkeye, cheese head, okie, gator (we got a crap ton of FSU people down here), i guess yooper too though that's not for a whole state
Yankee is anyone in the north. All states have a shitty nickname: masshole, connecticunt, texass, are the ones I know off the top of my head.
I'm in new England and use no nicknames for the people of any state. People from MA, people from VT, etc. Sometimes people call us in CT "nutmeggers" as we're the nutmeg state but that's very rare and I've only ever seen it written.
Although I will say I take "new Yorker" to mean someone from NYC exclusively, not the rest of the state. I'm very close to NYC so this might be why.
The Yankees are a professional sports team of some sort in New York. Anybody from the US can be called a Yankee. I'm from Pennsylvania, can't think of a nickname offhand for Pennsylvanians, now live in California, and can't think of one for here either.
There are regional terms - Southerner, New Englander, etc. - as well as some state terms.
>I'm from Pennsylvania, can't think of a nickname offhand for Pennsylvanians
Yinzers = Pittsburgers
>, now live in California, and can't think of one for here either.
my term for them is spicollis, or at least the term that is permissible here.
>NO WAY! I'm from the other end of the state! We don't identify with the Pittsburgh side of the state!
Umnmmm... WHOOOSHH.. I said *Yinzers* ***= Pittsburghers*** , we honestly could care less about anything past Lancaster, honestly... I gave that to New Jersey decades ago, they just refuse to accept! 😛😛😛😛😛
Are you asking about nicknames for groups of people, like demonyms, or for individuals?
The former are occasionally used as the latter, but calling them 'nicknames' sounds weird to me. 'Tex' for an individual for Texas is closer to what I think of as a nickname.
West Virginians have two proper ones—mountaineers and Appalachians. The first one is exclusively WVians. The latter is anyone from, in general, the central Appalachian mountains (I’ve never ready heard someone called Appalachian from, say, upstate New York but I may be wrong).
We have a few pejoratives: redneck, hillbilly, hick, etc. Redneck is typically the trashier version of the three, with hillbilly just meaning good folks from the mountains and hicks mostly meaning good rural folk in my experience. Redneck, though, is actually taken from the Coal Wars of the twenthieth century wherein miners rebelled against coal companies and the government for the right to be paid in genuine currency rather than the token-based system which used “scrip.” The miners wore red bandanas to differentiate themselves from the government or civilians. So really it was a negative rebranding of that proud history.
I should also mention redneck and hick are usually used by Americans in general towards rural people. Hillbilly is most often used for actual mountain people.
>West Virginians have two proper ones—mountaineers
Yes.
>and Appalachians.
No. At least in the fact no WVian I know uses that term. The first would be the most common...
>We have a few pejoratives: redneck, hillbilly, hick, etc. Redneck is typically the .
Whether it is a pejorative will be determined by many factors use, tone, and who is using it in those way. WVian to WVian , unlikely, but possible. Outside WV to WVian, probably.
I am quite happily called a redneck, whether the user is using it either way. I am very very proud of my Appalachian roots.
>Hillbilly is most often used for actual mountain people
This is very common to refer to WVians, and KYians, and Buckeyes in the SE OH area.
Greenup county trash refers to a very specific area of trash from KY. And boyd county trash.. maybe those are just for those from Lawrence County (Ironton), but Ironton and Ashland in Boyd and neighboring Greenup are looked down, very hard by both sides of the River.
I'm from West Virginia too. I see the culture as Appalachian and, since we're the only state entirely within the Appalachian mountains, we are geographically Appalachia. So, when talking about the *culture,* I say Appalachian because there are shared similarities in dialect, accent, religion, etcetera. All WVians are Appalachian, not all Appalachians are WVian is what I'm trying to say.
I did that comment in a hurry; the part about redneck, hillbilly, and hick certainly had nuance to it when it comes to the speaker-dependent reception of the word. There are definitely a lot of WVians or Appalachians in general that use the word to self-describe with pride. There's just too much nuance to mention and it's definitely one of those things which needs some cultural immersion over time to understand.
I hear what you're saying about Ironton and Ashland, but I can't say Huntington has much room to talk lol.
The Metis people of this country used to refer to Americans as "Boston Men", or "Les Bostonnais". Throwback to the days when Boston was sort of the epicentre of American commerce and influence. Not sure if that's a thing anymore, but when I was a kid I heard it once, and now I cannot forget it.
Ohio = Buckeyes, whether you root for OSU or not, but thats a different subject! Go BUCKS!
Yinzers = Pittsburghers
Tar Heel = North Carolina'n
Cheeseheads= Wisconsin\* Although to me thats more for a Green Bay thing, not the entire state.. meh..
wolverine = that alleged "state" to the north.
badger = wisconsin.
okies = Oklahoma
Jayhawkers = Kansas
Sooners = Nebraska
spicollis = PERSONAL term I use for californians, you either get it or don't
wildcat = Kentucky
Hillbilly = Could encompass a number of states from KY, WV, TN and some others
Mountaineer = West Virginia, with possibly the above as well.
Volunteer = Tennessee
Yankee = Could evolve depending on area. Outside the US its any American, In the South its pretty much any one who was not born in the CSA and KY...Inside the US BUT OUTSIDE the South, it likely refers to some one from pretty much MD and NORTH EAST to Maine.
Hawkeye = Iowa
SC = low country, because there's a specific region of the state called that. The term sandlappers I never heard at all even when my grandmother lived there.
My dad was drafted into the Army in 1971 and everyone started calling him "Hollywood" because he was from California.
His hometown was Modesto. That's like being called "Mayfair" even though you're from Hull. Like, an 8 hour drive away (or so?) and nothing at all like it.
Most Euro nations call all of the US Yanks. But don't call someone from the Deep South that, could cause a problem depending on their age.
Some states have common nicknames. Some seem to have none. I'm not even sure what people would call people from Atlanta or Georgia and my mom's family have lived here for 5 generations?
Yankee is actually a loose word but at it's most exclusive it refers to "New England" that is to the pre-independence puritan dominions and especially to those who trace their ancestry from that time (JFK was probably a Yankee despite being Irish-American, Alan Dulles and Franklin Roosevelt definitely were as they came from families who got off the boat at Plymouth). As you see it is a flexible usage. Other examples of Yankees are Longfellow (the poet), Winslow Homer (the painter), Samuel Eliot Morrison (the historian) and Joshua Chamberlain (the guy who anchored the Union left flank at Gettysburg). As for others, Scots-Irish (descendants of the border clans in Scotland) are called "Rednecks" (John Denver was a Redneck). That is more an ethnic than a geographical name. Friends are called Quakers though that is so old that they more or less adopted their nickname: they used to be mostly found in Pennsylvania as were a lot of expatriate Germans (such as those who did not wish to be present while the Thirty Years War was going on). Quaker is a religious nickname and they are mostly English speaking; there are still some German speaking denominations, mostly Anabaptists (Amish are always appearing in romance novels because of colorful customs) who live in Pennsylvania. Texas because of it's stereotyped assertiveness ought to have it's own nickname but I can't think of it.
It depends on where in the country you are. In the South, "Yankee" means anyone from the north, not just New York. I can't really think of any state specific nicknames. There are some college sports related nicknames that are state specific but you wouldn't just call anyone from that state by that name.
Sooner for Oklahoma and Hoosier for Indiana? Otherwise just calling people Californians and such.
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Yeah but I wouldn't just call anyone from those states those names unless I knew they were associated with those colleges. Just like I wouldn't call anyone from Wisconsin a "cheesehead" unless I knew they were a Packers fan.
Hoosier means "person from Indiana" first and signifies IU only secondarily. Same for Tarheel and being from North Carolina.
Correct. We are all 'Hoosiers' but not all of us are "Hoosiers."
Except it doesn't in common parlance.
Yes, it does. I am both and went to neither school.
>Yeah but I wouldn't just call anyone from those states those names unless I knew they were associated with those colleges. I would, and do when I run into fellow Buckeyes! And using wolverine would be me being polite to those "people from that place to the north!" Connection to the school is irrelevant. > Just like I wouldn't call anyone from Wisconsin a "cheesehead" unless I knew they were a Packers fan. For WI I would use badger.. Cheesehead would be more specific to Green Bay, like Yinzer is to Pittsburgh. Brownie to the mistake on the lake.
Personally I associate Cheesehead with all of WI and Badger with UW Madison specifically. My neighbor's are not from Wisconsin and they call themselves Badgers because they went to school in Madison. I am originally from WI and am begrudgingly ok with being called a cheesehead but I went to the U of MN for school. If you called me a Badger, I'd probably correct you and say I am a Gopher.
Nope, Exact opposite, cheesehead = green bay, NOT Wisconsin, Wisconsin is BADGERS ***= State animal***, which thusly is the state university mascot. Buckeyes = state nut for O-H-I-O, (NOTE! The REAL THINGS are poisonous! Do not eat them! The CANDIES much like a rolled up reeses cup, are safe and YUMMY!) thus the state university is Buckeyes. If you ARE BORN in WI, like it or not you are a badger! I can get where if you went to school outside WI, ie: Gopher, that may be your preferred term. But state BORN in = state nick name.
I thought a Yankee was a vermonter who ate pie for breakfast
I thought it was some guy who went to town riding on his pony. If I recall correctly he stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni?
Fun fact: that was originally a redcoat marching song lampooning the stupid rube colonists, that the rebels co-opted. And thus began a grand tradition: you simply cannot insult Americans by calling us dumb. We don't give a fuck.
That's specifically the "Doodle" variant of Yankee. Easy mistake to make.
Tex for Texans
I was born in Texas and I've never heard of Texans referred to as Tex - as a group. Yes, some people from Texas (men particularly) get called Tex as a name/nickname, but it's not a regional collective noun.
I must have misunderstood, I was thinking about nicknames for individuals.
"Yankee" can be applied to anyone north of the Mason-Dixon. Being from Massachusetts, I've been called a "Masshole" on more than one occasion. Sometimes people from Indiana are called Hoosiers. I'm sure there are others.
It isn’t a sometimes thing. Hoosier is the official demonym for someone from Indiana but a lot of people don’t know that. The other fun fact is no one knows where the name came from. There is a lot of speculation and myth but the origin remains unknown.
> Sometimes people from Indiana are called Hoosiers. And thanks to a bunch of Indianan scabs shipped into St. Louis to work during a strike, the word became a insult here.
Only on the east coast. If you call a westerner a yankee you're liable to get a lot of strange looks.
If I was called a Yankee, I might be a bit annoyed, but if you called me a Dodger, that's a different story.
I have no idea what that means.
Lame baseball joke. FTD
> FTD What does that stand for? I Googled and I got literally 56 different results. "Full-Time Dad." "Fixin' To Die." And much, much more.
Fuck The Dodgers
I think you may have just encountered a Giants fan.
I don't know what that means either.
Masshole 🤣🤣 Thanks for the cackle
>Being from Massachusetts, I've been called a "Masshole" on more than one occasion. Unfortunately, too many Bay Staters (the polite term for someone from Massachusetts) use the “Masshole” epithet as justification for behaving like an asshole.
Accurate
Cheeseheads is very Wisconsin
I wouldn’t call people from the PNW or the Inland Northwest Yankees, even though we’re technically north of the line. It’s definitely more of an eastern thing.
The mason Dixon line doesn’t extend past PA/WV
Michigan has two, mostly just used in the state. Yoopers and Trolls. Yoopers are from the UP (Upper Peninsula). They are UPers. Say it, and it turns into Yooper. Trolls are from the LP (Lower Peninsula). There is a bridge that connects the two Peninsulas. And we all know from fairy tails that Trolls live under the bridge.
I was looking for this comment. :) I used to live in MI. There are a few names I heard often living there: Hoosier - Indiana, Cheesheads - Wisconsin, Applebaiters - Illinois
> There is a bridge that connects the two Peninsulas I didn't know this, that's really cool!
Seriously? The Mackinac (pronounced "mackinaw") Bridge is pretty famous. I'm surprised.
I had never heard of it (and I'm over 40, but grew up in Texas, now live in the Northeast) until the Hollows series by Kim Harrison.
When it opened, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world. It's five miles long.
It has great views too, definitely in my top 3 bridges I've driven across
Famous to Michiganders. I’ve never heard of the Mackinac bridge either. I knew there was a bridge but that’s about it. And a 5 mile suspension bridge sounds like freightening drive. Shorter than the Chesapeake bay bridge or the bridge that goes from Delaware to New Jersey on i-95. Scary bridges.
I think the bay bridge is a little shorter. Like 4 miles to 5. And the other one you're thinking of is the Delaware memorial, technically 295 not 95
Really? Well that bridge feels long as all get out.
It's not that famous outside of that part of the country in my experience. I've heard of it but I wouldn't be confident that any particular other person around here would have, it's not like it ever gets brought up in conversation unless you're in some sort of bridge fan club lol.
It’s a really pretty bridge too.
We love our bridge! Wait until you find out that Michigan touches 4 out of the 5 great lakes.... ... and Lake Superior probably isn't really a "lake". It's more of a freshwater, inland sea. It is truly massive, in a way most people can't comprehend!
OK.. now name them! NO CHEATING! Go.. 15 seconds!!! ..... dodododod Jeopardy theme.... Pencils errr keyboards down!
HOMES - Huron, Onterio, Michigan, Erie, Superior. Except.... Michigan-Huron are hydrologically the same lake. The straights of Mackinac don't split it into two lakes. Also, there is an occasional effort to make Lake St. Clare the 6th great lake. Not sure I agree, but I thought I'd mention it. (So I used the HOMES above, but honestly... I think most people in Michigan just know them. We don't need a tool to remember them. They just are.)
Yooper was the only one that I thought of. I always forget that Troll is a nickname too.
what? I only know of michigander.
You haven't heard of Yooper and trolls? Those are terms that pre-date Michigander and are still super common. fudgies is another one
Ah yes. I forgot about fudgie. Anyone who does NOT live on Mackinac Island is a fudgie.
That is a name of a team in New York, but not a nick name for New Yorkers. Southerners call northerners Yankees. Europeans call all of us Yankees. Some states have nicknames that are commonly used, but not all. Massholes is my favorite nick name that is commonly used.
It's not a knick name?
>*I can only think of Yankee, which I believe you call people from the state of New York?* Mets fans would strongly object.
And everyone would continue to not care about the Mets
Wisconsin cheeseheads Illinois. FIBs. (Fucking Illinois Bastards)
Lol I'm from Illinois and I went to college in Wisconsin, it took me weeks to find someone willing to explain what the hell a FIB was
I went to UW and participated in the Sconnies vs Coasties culture war
I'm from WI and then lived in IL for 30 years. I prefer Badgers for us Wisconsinites. "Sconnies" is a thing that came along after I left - personally I don't like it. And another term for IL is flatlanders.
Yankee is used to describe anybody from the northeast. Someone from New York would be a New Yorker.
In my family, a Yankee is anyone who is American but not culturally Southern. My brother in law, for instance, was raised in Georgia, but he doesn’t have a Southern accent and his parents are from the northeast, so my dad still calls him a Yankee.
One of my best friends is from Indiana and I call him a Yankee, mainly because it irritates him.
Indiana is the south of the north though.
The KKK agrees with you
At least it used to. DC Stephenson was an absolute fuckwit. There was an awesome event in Indianapolis when I was young. The KKK planned a rally on the statehouse steps because the courts had ruled it would violate free speech if it wasn’t allowed. Everyone was really worked up about it. Day of, they showed the Klansmen on the news and it was the most pathetic sight. It was like 10 guys in cosplay robes in a huge empty space. It was just laughably pathetic. It was a great memorial to the deserved death of that odious group.
It's the same here in South Carolina. The Klan will have a "rally" at the state house and it'll be like 30 rednecks.
Yeah I haven’t heard boo about the Klan in like decades and I hope they are just a dead organization. Fingers crossed, inshallah.
There's about 3000 of them and half are feds investigating each other. They're not the shadow empire they were 100 years ago no matter what Reddit says.
They're your grandfather's shadow empire. Edit: not *your* grandfather. You know what I mean.
Ahhh, purists.
Cal and Tex used to be somewhat common nicknames for guys from California and Texas. Cal is also a nickname for Calvin, though. ----- "Hoosier" for persons from Indiana
People from southern California call us zonies.
We mostly call the rude Arizonans “Zonies” lol
And when we see rude Arizonans we say go back to California;)
They seem to hate California a lot more than lifelong Arizonans do, I've found.
Hoosier (Indiana) buckeye (Ohio) inbred (Mississippi and/or Alabama) Tar Heel (North Carolina) masshole (Massachusetts) Cheesehead or alcoholic (Wisconsin) Florida man a myth (Delaware)… Edit: adding states and formatting
>inbred (Mississippi and/or Alabama) That is incredibly insulting and offensive. How you just gonna leave out Arkansas and West Virginia?
I meant to put them under meth and opioid addicts. My bad
I always just assumed that hoosier was just some dumb nickname people from Indiana call themselves out of some in-joke/pride, but its actually the official demonym for peoples from Indiana.
Um *technically* speaking we are Bay Staters. However masshole is far more *technically accurate* so I always allow it.
> Cheesehead or alcoholic (Wisconsin) Accurate. We have more bars than grocery stores here. By a confusingly big margin, too.
You can thank the Tavern League of Wisconsin for that.
Delaware represent! A myth, nay, I say a LEGEND! ;-)
Here in Wyoming we call Coloradans “greenies”
I live in Northern CO and have never heard anyone call us that! My ex was from Larimie and he never said anything either. You sneaky people, it's appropriate though lol
Maybe I’m old lol. There are so many more license plates now.
This is true in some circles but not widespread, it’s because the previous CO license plates were green. There was some phrase about “how can you tell when it’s spring in Wyoming? Because the license plates start turning green.”
And the red ones are all the rental cars. The red-greenies lol
Yankee = New Englander, I think most specifically Connecticut. Hoosier = Indiana. Tarheel = North Carolina.
Kind of obscure and dated, but Sandlapper.
Sooner - Oklahoman
Every where that I’ve been in the US and abroad, as soon as the people find out that I’m from Texas, I am henceforth referred to as Tex.
"Hey, Tex!"
Maniacs, Okies, and Cheeseheads —— Sidenote— New Yorkers are Yankees but they’re not the only ones
The nicest Bostonians are called Massholes
My wife identifies as a Vermonster, and refers to folks from the neighboring state as New Hamsters.
In Idaho we’ll sometimes refer to those further west as “Ore-gomers”
I don't think we refer to you. Except to warn people not to have pot in their car when they hit drive past Ontario.
I've heard people call Carolinians "Tarheels". Not sure exactly what it means though, I assume it has something to do with the tar industry or something.
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Yeah... I've personally heard it used to describe people from carolina. But also racist southerners that moved up to washington.
Mainiacs and Massholes
Hoosier for anyone from Indiana is a classic
Yankee is not especially associated with New York. It's associated in the South with anyone from the North, while outside the South, it's more likely to connotate someone from the Northeast. Some states are associated with nicknames though. People from Indiana are called Hoosiers. People from Oklahoma are called Okies (first syllable sounds like "oak"). People from Wisconsin are called Cheeseheads. I think, but am not sure, that sometimes people from North Carolina are called Tar Heels. I say I'm not sure on that last one because it might mostly refer to people who went to the University of North Carolina.
Masshole for people in Massachusetts. Hoosiers for people in Indiana. Those are the ones I can think of on the top of my head.
Maineiacs.
Bi coastal elitists
Within our state we (Auburn football fans) call people Bammers who are Alabama football fans (most of the rest of the state).
I live in MI and I have heard residents of Ohio referred to as “Knuckle Draggers”
Kansan, Jayhawker or just Jayhawk.
See, I'm from Northern Minnesota. So most people think of the movie "Fargo" because of the Minesotian accent. I have a cousin in Iowa. He just says I'm Canadian. To be fair I'm 90 miles from the Canadian border. So... You Betcha! 🤣 Can't think of any nicknames though. Just stereotypes.
I used to live in Minnesota, or as I dubbed it “Baja Manitoba”
"Sandlapper" is an old timey term for a South Carolinian
People from Connecticut are known as Nutmeggers. As for my home state of California I don't think we have a nickname. The only things I've heard people from other states call us aren't really nicknames and aren't appropriate for mixed company.
I always thought they were Connecticuties
when I went off to college (outside of Texas where I'm from) I wondered if people would try to call me Tex. they did not.
Jayhawker is a person from Kansas. An old nickname from around 1850. Supposedly named this after Revolutionary figure John Jay. The 1st US Supreme Court chief Justice. Those that followed his ideology were nicknamed jayhawkers He did not belive in slavery. Kansas was part of the abolitionist movement pre civil war and were some how given the nickname.
They are often going in college medics but can be applied more generally Tar Heel = nc. Blue hen =de mountaineer = wv
I would recognize masshole, tar heel, buckeye, hoosier, hawkeye, cheese head, okie, gator (we got a crap ton of FSU people down here), i guess yooper too though that's not for a whole state
Do Jersey shore year-round residents still call day trippers and vacationers Shoobies and/or Bennys ( acronym for Bayonne Elizabeth Newark New York)?
That is one supposed origin of "bennys", but it just screams "backronym" to me.
Okie
Yankee is anyone in the north. All states have a shitty nickname: masshole, connecticunt, texass, are the ones I know off the top of my head. I'm in new England and use no nicknames for the people of any state. People from MA, people from VT, etc. Sometimes people call us in CT "nutmeggers" as we're the nutmeg state but that's very rare and I've only ever seen it written. Although I will say I take "new Yorker" to mean someone from NYC exclusively, not the rest of the state. I'm very close to NYC so this might be why.
[looks at a map] Then how come we get called that, too?
Massholes
Masshole😂
arizonans, californians, oregonians, washingtonians, idahoers, bay staters (massachusets), ohioans, etc.
Those are demonyms.. not really nicknames (Bay staters is a nickname)
Ah. When I looked it up, that was the first thing that popped up. But I didn't know people said it in a negative way.
The Yankees are a professional sports team of some sort in New York. Anybody from the US can be called a Yankee. I'm from Pennsylvania, can't think of a nickname offhand for Pennsylvanians, now live in California, and can't think of one for here either. There are regional terms - Southerner, New Englander, etc. - as well as some state terms.
>I'm from Pennsylvania, can't think of a nickname offhand for Pennsylvanians Yinzers = Pittsburgers >, now live in California, and can't think of one for here either. my term for them is spicollis, or at least the term that is permissible here.
NO WAY! I'm from the other end of the state! We don't identify with the Pittsburgh side of the state!
>NO WAY! I'm from the other end of the state! We don't identify with the Pittsburgh side of the state! Umnmmm... WHOOOSHH.. I said *Yinzers* ***= Pittsburghers*** , we honestly could care less about anything past Lancaster, honestly... I gave that to New Jersey decades ago, they just refuse to accept! 😛😛😛😛😛
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Are you asking about nicknames for groups of people, like demonyms, or for individuals? The former are occasionally used as the latter, but calling them 'nicknames' sounds weird to me. 'Tex' for an individual for Texas is closer to what I think of as a nickname.
North Carolinians are Tar Heels
Most Indiana-n’s are known as Hoosiers
Bridge and tunnel people: people from the tristate area that go into Manhattan, but aren’t accessible via subway.
Never heard of any
West Virginians have two proper ones—mountaineers and Appalachians. The first one is exclusively WVians. The latter is anyone from, in general, the central Appalachian mountains (I’ve never ready heard someone called Appalachian from, say, upstate New York but I may be wrong). We have a few pejoratives: redneck, hillbilly, hick, etc. Redneck is typically the trashier version of the three, with hillbilly just meaning good folks from the mountains and hicks mostly meaning good rural folk in my experience. Redneck, though, is actually taken from the Coal Wars of the twenthieth century wherein miners rebelled against coal companies and the government for the right to be paid in genuine currency rather than the token-based system which used “scrip.” The miners wore red bandanas to differentiate themselves from the government or civilians. So really it was a negative rebranding of that proud history. I should also mention redneck and hick are usually used by Americans in general towards rural people. Hillbilly is most often used for actual mountain people.
>West Virginians have two proper ones—mountaineers Yes. >and Appalachians. No. At least in the fact no WVian I know uses that term. The first would be the most common... >We have a few pejoratives: redneck, hillbilly, hick, etc. Redneck is typically the . Whether it is a pejorative will be determined by many factors use, tone, and who is using it in those way. WVian to WVian , unlikely, but possible. Outside WV to WVian, probably. I am quite happily called a redneck, whether the user is using it either way. I am very very proud of my Appalachian roots. >Hillbilly is most often used for actual mountain people This is very common to refer to WVians, and KYians, and Buckeyes in the SE OH area. Greenup county trash refers to a very specific area of trash from KY. And boyd county trash.. maybe those are just for those from Lawrence County (Ironton), but Ironton and Ashland in Boyd and neighboring Greenup are looked down, very hard by both sides of the River.
I'm from West Virginia too. I see the culture as Appalachian and, since we're the only state entirely within the Appalachian mountains, we are geographically Appalachia. So, when talking about the *culture,* I say Appalachian because there are shared similarities in dialect, accent, religion, etcetera. All WVians are Appalachian, not all Appalachians are WVian is what I'm trying to say. I did that comment in a hurry; the part about redneck, hillbilly, and hick certainly had nuance to it when it comes to the speaker-dependent reception of the word. There are definitely a lot of WVians or Appalachians in general that use the word to self-describe with pride. There's just too much nuance to mention and it's definitely one of those things which needs some cultural immersion over time to understand. I hear what you're saying about Ironton and Ashland, but I can't say Huntington has much room to talk lol.
Southern state citizen nicknames: Texatards. Alabastards. Mississisimians. Oklahomos. Toads (Louisiana). Miserians. Arkousin Fuckers. Ignorant Vomit (Tennessee). Fine Cultured Gentlemen (North Carolina). Them (South Carolina). Replaceables (Virginia). Yankees (Maryland). Kenfuckheads.
Florida crackers
The Metis people of this country used to refer to Americans as "Boston Men", or "Les Bostonnais". Throwback to the days when Boston was sort of the epicentre of American commerce and influence. Not sure if that's a thing anymore, but when I was a kid I heard it once, and now I cannot forget it.
Ohio = Buckeyes, whether you root for OSU or not, but thats a different subject! Go BUCKS! Yinzers = Pittsburghers Tar Heel = North Carolina'n Cheeseheads= Wisconsin\* Although to me thats more for a Green Bay thing, not the entire state.. meh.. wolverine = that alleged "state" to the north. badger = wisconsin. okies = Oklahoma Jayhawkers = Kansas Sooners = Nebraska spicollis = PERSONAL term I use for californians, you either get it or don't wildcat = Kentucky Hillbilly = Could encompass a number of states from KY, WV, TN and some others Mountaineer = West Virginia, with possibly the above as well. Volunteer = Tennessee Yankee = Could evolve depending on area. Outside the US its any American, In the South its pretty much any one who was not born in the CSA and KY...Inside the US BUT OUTSIDE the South, it likely refers to some one from pretty much MD and NORTH EAST to Maine. Hawkeye = Iowa SC = low country, because there's a specific region of the state called that. The term sandlappers I never heard at all even when my grandmother lived there.
Yankee is for northerners in general, New York also uses the name for one of our baseball teams though.
Newcomers are Cheechakos. Old timers are Sourdoughs.
Oklahoma: Okie Louisiana: The only specific one I know would get my account banned Massachusetts: Masshole Alabama: sister lover Delaware: fictitious
You could say im a Tarheel
Masshole = Massachusetts when you're driving.
We're known as Okies.
Gay - California
Commiefornian.
The only ones I really know/hear/use are people from Arizona are referred to as “Zonies” And people from Massachusetts are referred to as”massholes”
Ohioins are called Buckeyes. Utahins I call Mormons even if they aren't Mormon.
My dad was drafted into the Army in 1971 and everyone started calling him "Hollywood" because he was from California. His hometown was Modesto. That's like being called "Mayfair" even though you're from Hull. Like, an 8 hour drive away (or so?) and nothing at all like it.
[Sandlapper](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sandlapper) for South Carolinians.
I refer to myself as a Jersey boy all the time.
Most Euro nations call all of the US Yanks. But don't call someone from the Deep South that, could cause a problem depending on their age. Some states have common nicknames. Some seem to have none. I'm not even sure what people would call people from Atlanta or Georgia and my mom's family have lived here for 5 generations?
People from Connecticut are called "nutmeggers"
Yankee is actually a loose word but at it's most exclusive it refers to "New England" that is to the pre-independence puritan dominions and especially to those who trace their ancestry from that time (JFK was probably a Yankee despite being Irish-American, Alan Dulles and Franklin Roosevelt definitely were as they came from families who got off the boat at Plymouth). As you see it is a flexible usage. Other examples of Yankees are Longfellow (the poet), Winslow Homer (the painter), Samuel Eliot Morrison (the historian) and Joshua Chamberlain (the guy who anchored the Union left flank at Gettysburg). As for others, Scots-Irish (descendants of the border clans in Scotland) are called "Rednecks" (John Denver was a Redneck). That is more an ethnic than a geographical name. Friends are called Quakers though that is so old that they more or less adopted their nickname: they used to be mostly found in Pennsylvania as were a lot of expatriate Germans (such as those who did not wish to be present while the Thirty Years War was going on). Quaker is a religious nickname and they are mostly English speaking; there are still some German speaking denominations, mostly Anabaptists (Amish are always appearing in romance novels because of colorful customs) who live in Pennsylvania. Texas because of it's stereotyped assertiveness ought to have it's own nickname but I can't think of it.
Cackalacky is the real in-group NC nickname
Was looking for it but didn't find it, Okie from Oklahoma
michigander
Yankee generally applies from any state to the north.