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Casino
08-12-2009, 06:40 PM
Do you remember the family trips? Always asking "are we there yet"?
And playing all those funs games....like looking for different state license plates! Well this summer, my husband and I decided to drive to TV instead of the flying. Yes the drive was nice. BUT I finally starting asking those famous questions........

So I decided to play a game. The problem is that I do not know all of the answers (correct ones that is). So I thought that I would ask my fellow friends. The game was to name a state and to guess what people in that state are called....like , I am from Rhode Island and here we are called Rhodeislanders. And yes of course, people from Florida are Floridians.
What would be the names for other states?
Boomer
08-12-2009, 08:24 PM
Hi Joann, graciegirl and I and a few others around here are Ohioans. Most people just call us Buckeyes though.

Boomer
Julie
08-12-2009, 08:25 PM
Officially Californians

Although, due to all the wackniess that goes on over here I refer to this place as The land of the fruits and nuts! :loco:
clyd709
08-12-2009, 09:46 PM
My original Homestate Connecticut Nutmeggers. Now living in Georgia we are Peaches
chuckinca
08-12-2009, 09:55 PM
Officially Californians

Although, due to all the wackniess that goes on over here I refer to this place as The land of the fruits and nuts! :loco:


That's funny to say in TV but bet you keep that to yourself in Pleasanton.

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tony
08-12-2009, 11:12 PM
I think people from Ohio are called English majors.
dgammon6
08-13-2009, 12:28 AM
Indiana....... hoosiers
villages07
08-13-2009, 06:33 AM
Marylanders

also known as The Free State

or Maryland is for Crabs
Boomer
08-13-2009, 07:15 AM
Indiana....... hoosiers

Hi neighbor,

I am in Ohio, next door. I was just wondering if you had ever heard anything about where the name Hoosiers came from.

The only thing I have ever heard is that it was from back in the days when people generally lived in the same area for a lot of their lives and knew just about everybody for miles around. But if, by chance, they happened to meet somebody that they did not know, they would ask, "Who's your father?" Or, "Who's your mother?" (I guess I should probably look it up because I really do not know if that is right.)

Anyway, I have always thought that driving through the southern half of your state on the "roads less traveled" is just like driving through a postcard. All those well-tended family farms and beautiful little churches and wonderful barns, some of them round. Anyway, I am digressing, I know, but I like your state.

Boomer
Bonny
08-13-2009, 07:35 AM
We are Michiganders. However, now that we moved to the Villages 9 years ago, we figure we are now Michigoners.
ssmith
08-13-2009, 08:06 AM
I too am from Indiana. Seems there are many stories about the way Hoosier began. One I remember most is that a knock on the door would bring the response "Who's ere?". Which came out Hoosier.

A funny note: we also lived in Missouri (sometimes pronounce Misery haha...but we loved it). If a person was called a Hoosier in that state it was a put down...like uneducated or stupid.

Tony...what a riot Ohio = English Major :)

Susie
JUREK
08-13-2009, 08:59 AM
We are Michiganders. However, now that we moved to the Villages 9 years ago, we figure we are now Michigoners.

Hay Bonny I never heard the term Michigoners but I like it. I'm doing my best to keep the Michigan economy going. Headed for lunch to New Buffalo .
Wonderful state.:coolsmiley:
Casino
08-13-2009, 11:14 AM
What great answers...some I would have never thought of. What a way to learn new things. Now I know that there are others out there from other states. Please reply and give us a fun education.
Yoda
08-13-2009, 03:05 PM
People in NH call those from MA "Massasses" I call them idiots. It wasn't always that way.

Yoda
Julie
08-13-2009, 03:19 PM
That's funny to say in TV but bet you keep that to yourself in Pleasanton.

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In good ol' P-town I'm good to go. Now Berzerkeley on the other hand...:22yikes:
blueeagle65
08-13-2009, 03:58 PM
Mountaineers !
Linwood
08-13-2009, 09:26 PM
Tar Heels!

Several stories where it came from, but the one I subscribe to is credited to a General during an early battle in the War of Northern Aggression, (to you Yankee folks and my wife, she is from Michigan, it was the Civil War, to us native Southerners there was nothing civil about it!)
There stand those North Carolina boys like they have tar on their heels,,,,

Of course those Duke fans hate to think of them selves as Tar Heels,
so they are probably North Carolinians

smile :) :)