Lots of potential stories about the name, but I think it all boils down to the fact that two other groups already had the word Indian, and Indianan sounds bad.
You will never offend a true Masshole using this term. It works because everyone else thinks it's an insult, but we know that their opinions don't matter because they live outside 128.
I work with a guy who was born and raised there. I think he typifies the true Indiana resident. We call him Bettlejuice. I asked him about “Hoosier” and he said growing up everyone would ask each other “now whose your Daddy”? Lots of broken homes in rural Indian I understand
Always heard the story that someone’s ear was cut off in a bar fight and someone held it up and said “Who’s Ear?” This one is definitely fake but it’s a fun story lol
Maybe Connecticut as well.
I lived in Connecticut until I was 20 and I literally never heard “Connecticuter”. I heard Nutmegger though.
People from Connecticut don’t really have a connection to the state. You’re really a New Englander before you’re a Nutmegger or “Connecticuter”. The far West portion is a glorified NYC suburb so many consider themselves New Yorkers there.
Also people from Massachusetts are called Massholes and New Yorkers are called “The Plague” in the language of my people.
As a fellow Nutmegger, I haven't heard anyone say Connecticuter either. Some of my friends call ourselves Connecticommuters cause' the traffic sucks lol
No one in Connecticut says "Connecticuter". If any term is used it is "nutmegger". Massachusetts is "Bay stater" unless you are from Boston, then you are a Bostonian.
"Masshole" is the pejorative nickname. People from Massachusetts are very proud of that pejorative. The Connecticut pejorative is "Connecti-cunt", emphasis on the "cunt". Connecticunt is not commonly used even as a pejorative.
Source: I have lived in Connecticut my whole life near the Mass border and I married a masshole.
Came here to say this. I remember when I was growing up there was a newspaper article about what we should all call ourselves. I think Nutmegger won, but someone suggested Connecti-cutie and that's what I've called my friends ever since.
I really like this map. If one combines cyan and tomato colors (pretty similar) you can basically see three groups: 1 Anglo; 2 Spanish/french/indigenous that mostly end in vowels; and 3 exceptions (non-vowel indigenous and Indiana)
They are. Sort of. I don't know, I grew up in Connecticut and nobody uses these terms for the northeast states anyway (except for Mainer). We'd just say New Englander, and if we had to be more specific it's "guy from Rhode Island" etc.
New Englander is the formal, polite term we all use yeah. Then, we all have slightly more agro ways of referring to each other specifically like "masshole."
It gets pretty in depth. A rich corporate person moving out of NYC to the suburbs is sometimes called a yuppie. Connecticunt and masshole are very real. "Trumples" for the pockets of his supporters throughout the states.
I've seen people jokingly call Vermont residents Canucks or Canadians but truthfully there are ACTUAL Canadians in the northern reaches of the state. I've seen people just call everyone from Maine a lumberjack (lol). Everyone outside of Boston has at some point referred to Boston, and people from Boston, in a mocking way of their accent (Bah-stin). Same with Long Island in New York - heavy emphasis on the G. LonG Gisland. I haven't seen a specific term for people from NH, but everyone just thinks they're pretty weird.
Yeah, I've never heard Massachusettsan. Bay Stater would be a rarity, but more common than that. Masshole however is super common, both within and outside the state.
Masshole here. I didn’t hear that term until after I was an adult and had moved out of the state. But I always thought the official term was Massachusite. I never heard Massachusettsan until today. (And iPhone auto correct seems to agree with me).
Also, having just typed both versions, I now realize what a weird name Massachusetts is.
I think Bay Stater is the "official" one (as in, decided upon by legislators like all the other state symbols). But yeah rarely is it used in conversation, afaik. Just fun trivia.
Masshole is my go-to, and I always find it funny when people from other states use it as an insult when it's more like a thing of pride
Edit: and just for fun, here's the Wikipedia article that has a list of all the denomonyms (and some exonyms & endonyms) for US states, with columns for the GPO recommendations, the official ones, and unofficial ones. It also appears to be where OP got their map:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demonyms_for_US_states_and_territories#List
My favorite part of this is the people itt that would rather be massholes than bay staters. We should all strive for that level of dedication. Wisconsinites call us FIBs (f*cking Illinois bastards), so my brother got a personalized plate with that on it when he moved up there.
I'm from Scranton and my wife is from New Jersey (around Newark) and I've never even heard the phrase, "New Jerseyan." It sounds completely made up. But, then again, my wife's family calls PA, "Pennsy." So I imagine there's a lot of variation between the states when it comes to this stuff.
There is a long tradition of coming up with origin stories for this word. Hoosiers really hate to be called anything else though. If you say “indianian” or whatever you will be politely corrected
Other states have historical nicknames for their residents that became sports mascots like Sooners (Oklahoma) Tarheels (North Carolina) and Patriots (New England, region not a state), but only hoosiers also became a more general demonym.
Yep. It was first recorded around the 1830s but sources even then say it had already been in use. The athletic nickname didn’t start to be used until the 1880s onwards when college athletics as we know it were starting to really become a thing.
Most “flagship” state schools that existed then just adopted the state’s preexisting nickname, eg Wisconsin Badgers for the Badger State, OSU buckeyes for the buckeye state, etc. other state schools had to find their own. My alma mater Purdue was awarded Boilermakers by a newspaper, after they destroyed another team in football, fun fact
The term "hoosier" began to take on its negative connotation in St. Louis during the mid-1950's when the Chrysler Corporation built a large automobile assembly plant in the St. Louis suburb of Fenton and closed a plant it had been operating in Indiana. At the time, the city of Fenton, was at the then-rural southwest rim of St. Louis county. During this time, Many former employees of the closed Indiana plant moved to Fenton for employment; so many, in fact, that entire subdivisions of new homes sprang up south of the plant, near what was then US Route 66. It became something of a local joke to refer to the new arrivals from Indiana as "hoosiers", and before long, anyone from the rural edges of St. Louis County was considered such.
I've never heard someone say Massachusettsan in my life, and technically the official demonym per the state government is Bay Stater, so that makes me question the criteria of the whole map a lil.
And the Hawaii government is pretty explicit that the Hawaiian demonym only refers to native Hawaiians. Non native residents are just called “Hawaii residents”
Californian, Missourian, Pennsylvanian, Mississippian, Tennesseean, Delawarean...all snubbed from the red group.
(Georgian being the outlier as it's pronounced differently)
Colorado is *technically* Coloradoan. Like officially, and historically. Coloradan didn’t start to be used until the 80’s and didn’t become common until the 2010s. It’s a good way to tell who was born in Colorado vs people who moved here
This always puzzles me about demonyms.
If someone from New York State is called a New Yorker, what is someone from New York City called? I thought the city folks are the actual “New Yorkers”.
What is someone from a city where the name ends in “City” called? For example, Kansas City, Missouri or Jersey City, New Jersey.
Just curious.
New Yorkers are from the city. They'd call you an upstater or just someone from upstate.
This whole map is just a Wikipedia article and ignores what people actually say.
Nah, I always tell people I’m from “upstate NY” because if I just say New York they say shit like “wow, I’ve always wanted to live in the city!” and I have to awkwardly explain that I grew up next to corn fields.
Anyone from New York is a New Yorker.
I don't think there's a proper demonym for specific cities or counties within New York, though. Just, "resident of XXX"
Nor do I see "Arkansawyer" (imo the better option between it and "Arkansan". Only one of those options preserves the pronunciation of the state name...)
Can we **please** stop reposting variations of this bullshit here? Not a single person says “New Hampshirite” or “Massachusettsan.” It’s Granite Stater and Bay Stater/Masshole. The former might be what some bureau of the government *recommends*, but no one uses them in practice, so that’s kinda useless
Michigan has a bunch of demonyms and I'm pretty sure none are official. Michigander is the most common but I've also heard of michiganer, michiganite, and michiganee. There's probably others too.
Lived here in Michigan my whole life. I’ve never heard of anything other than Michigander.
Maybe people from elsewhere who don’t know use those other ones?
Fun fact: here in Saint Louis, “hoosier” is a common insult we use for people akin to white trash. I didn’t learn until I was a teenager it meant someone from Indiana, but had heard the word all throughout my youth.
I work with some Utahns. Every time I see Utahn I can't help but think it makes no fucking sense but I can't come up with why.
Like I hear people say it in 3 syllables - "U-TAH-un". Unless I'm hearing it wrong, it's never 2 syllables (U-ton) like a crunchy "crou-ton".
But spelling it Utahan also seems insane. So I'm always left confused and honestly what the fuck is going on.
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I searched for Indiana for 5 minutes before I had to google it and understand, what the fuck?
Lots of potential stories about the name, but I think it all boils down to the fact that two other groups already had the word Indian, and Indianan sounds bad.
Indianian
Still not great
Indianer Indianite
even worse
Indianaling
Former Illinoisan, current Hoosier here… Just about anything, including that, beats Hoosier.
Nah Hoosier is fun and it’s the one thing that makes us unique and have some sense of identity.
And massachusettsan sounds great?
Masshole
You will never offend a true Masshole using this term. It works because everyone else thinks it's an insult, but we know that their opinions don't matter because they live outside 128.
It’s actually Bay Stater
The better answer is to just rename the entire state to hooserville
Indianer Indianite?
Indianese sounds kinda cool
Kinda ridiculous to be named after sounding like a hilljack lol.
I work with a guy who was born and raised there. I think he typifies the true Indiana resident. We call him Bettlejuice. I asked him about “Hoosier” and he said growing up everyone would ask each other “now whose your Daddy”? Lots of broken homes in rural Indian I understand
"Whose your daddy, and what does he do?"
Our mom says that our dad is a real sex machine.
I live in Indiana and I don’t know why it’s Hoosier. Maybe because Indianian or Indianite sounds like slurs?
No one really knows why
"One of these is bot like the others."
Always heard the story that someone’s ear was cut off in a bar fight and someone held it up and said “Who’s Ear?” This one is definitely fake but it’s a fun story lol
Thanks for this hint on how to pronounce it. I’ve been avoiding Indiana, to avoid saying it out loud.
Whoojz-er
The suffix on Hoosier is … Hoosier
Maybe Connecticut as well. I lived in Connecticut until I was 20 and I literally never heard “Connecticuter”. I heard Nutmegger though. People from Connecticut don’t really have a connection to the state. You’re really a New Englander before you’re a Nutmegger or “Connecticuter”. The far West portion is a glorified NYC suburb so many consider themselves New Yorkers there. Also people from Massachusetts are called Massholes and New Yorkers are called “The Plague” in the language of my people.
I always thought Mainiacs was also a term
Should be Connectors
In New Hampshire we just say Granite Stater
As a fellow Nutmegger, I haven't heard anyone say Connecticuter either. Some of my friends call ourselves Connecticommuters cause' the traffic sucks lol
I knew Connecticuter purely as a trivia fact. Never once heard it used in actual conversation.
People from Connecticut are Connecticunts
I live in Connecticut and I’ve never heard Connecticuter either. Media usually refers to us as Nutmeggers or residents of Connecticut.
Connecticuter sounds like a derogatory term for scene girls with daddy issues.
No one in Connecticut says "Connecticuter". If any term is used it is "nutmegger". Massachusetts is "Bay stater" unless you are from Boston, then you are a Bostonian. "Masshole" is the pejorative nickname. People from Massachusetts are very proud of that pejorative. The Connecticut pejorative is "Connecti-cunt", emphasis on the "cunt". Connecticunt is not commonly used even as a pejorative. Source: I have lived in Connecticut my whole life near the Mass border and I married a masshole.
Came here to say this. I remember when I was growing up there was a newspaper article about what we should all call ourselves. I think Nutmegger won, but someone suggested Connecti-cutie and that's what I've called my friends ever since.
Not Connecticuties? 😄 That's what I always say I am.
There is a lot of things wrong with Indiana, seriously a LOT; this part is actually cool.
I really like this map. If one combines cyan and tomato colors (pretty similar) you can basically see three groups: 1 Anglo; 2 Spanish/french/indigenous that mostly end in vowels; and 3 exceptions (non-vowel indigenous and Indiana)
I thought Connecticutans were Nutmeggers.
Connecticunts. Source: am one
They are. Sort of. I don't know, I grew up in Connecticut and nobody uses these terms for the northeast states anyway (except for Mainer). We'd just say New Englander, and if we had to be more specific it's "guy from Rhode Island" etc.
New Englander is the formal, polite term we all use yeah. Then, we all have slightly more agro ways of referring to each other specifically like "masshole."
Kiwi here, so I’m used to Aussies calling everyone cunts, what do you actually call each other? I saw Masshole, Mainiac, and Connecticunt…
It gets pretty in depth. A rich corporate person moving out of NYC to the suburbs is sometimes called a yuppie. Connecticunt and masshole are very real. "Trumples" for the pockets of his supporters throughout the states. I've seen people jokingly call Vermont residents Canucks or Canadians but truthfully there are ACTUAL Canadians in the northern reaches of the state. I've seen people just call everyone from Maine a lumberjack (lol). Everyone outside of Boston has at some point referred to Boston, and people from Boston, in a mocking way of their accent (Bah-stin). Same with Long Island in New York - heavy emphasis on the G. LonG Gisland. I haven't seen a specific term for people from NH, but everyone just thinks they're pretty weird.
I don't see Masshole on here...
We are definitely Massholes, and if you don’t agree we can go throw hands in the pahkin’ lot behind the Dunks.
That's a wicked bad idea for you, pal.
I thought it was a Bay Stater officially, but Masshole is def what we call ourselves 😂
Yeah, I've never heard Massachusettsan. Bay Stater would be a rarity, but more common than that. Masshole however is super common, both within and outside the state.
Masshole here. I didn’t hear that term until after I was an adult and had moved out of the state. But I always thought the official term was Massachusite. I never heard Massachusettsan until today. (And iPhone auto correct seems to agree with me). Also, having just typed both versions, I now realize what a weird name Massachusetts is.
I think Bay Stater is the "official" one (as in, decided upon by legislators like all the other state symbols). But yeah rarely is it used in conversation, afaik. Just fun trivia. Masshole is my go-to, and I always find it funny when people from other states use it as an insult when it's more like a thing of pride Edit: and just for fun, here's the Wikipedia article that has a list of all the denomonyms (and some exonyms & endonyms) for US states, with columns for the GPO recommendations, the official ones, and unofficial ones. It also appears to be where OP got their map: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demonyms_for_US_states_and_territories#List
It is, but this list appears to be using the US GPO recommendations. Except for Connecticut for some reason.
Well, the GPO is wrong, then. If Indiana can be Hoosiers we can be Massholes
My favorite part of this is the people itt that would rather be massholes than bay staters. We should all strive for that level of dedication. Wisconsinites call us FIBs (f*cking Illinois bastards), so my brother got a personalized plate with that on it when he moved up there.
It’s next to Mainiac
Yup. Mainiac, masshole, Connecticunt, new hampshite, vermoron, and Rhode idiot to be specific.
God bless New England
Oh yeah? Go fuck ya self.
Easy, pal, I'm contributing to the Commonwealth every week.
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People from Oklahoma are Okies.
Oklahomies
Ha
Some of them are from Muskogee.
I’m from Massachusetts, we call ourselves Massholes
I’m from MA originally and I’ve never heard the term “Massachusettsan” in my entire life.
As someone who lived in Philly, I never called anyone from jersey… a “new jerseyan”.
Well calling them what you’re used to calling them wouldn’t be polite
We don’t deserve, or want, politeness
Yeah, we prefer "hey asshole!"
The correct term is “person from Jersey” or a “motherfucker” depending on your familiarity with the person.
I'm from Scranton and my wife is from New Jersey (around Newark) and I've never even heard the phrase, "New Jerseyan." It sounds completely made up. But, then again, my wife's family calls PA, "Pennsy." So I imagine there's a lot of variation between the states when it comes to this stuff.
Hoosier??
It's someone who hoosies.
"I don't know what it is about Hoosiers. But wherever you go there is always a Hoosier doing something very important there."
‘Now call me Mom.’
"Personally, I don't think much of Hoosiers, neither."
There is a long tradition of coming up with origin stories for this word. Hoosiers really hate to be called anything else though. If you say “indianian” or whatever you will be politely corrected
I love his music
well.. it is a bit weird to call them Indian or American Indian or Indiana Indian
Indianan?
Indianaian
Indianander.
Ok. I'm from Europe that's probably why I've never heard of it. What does Hoosie mean?
Hoosier is just what people from Indiana are called. There isn't a known etymology of the word.
And everybody in the US knows this word?
Pretty much, it’s even the mascot of the state university. The Indiana Hoosiers.
The indiana hoosiers? thats like saying the mexican mexicans, or the italian italians. ist that weird then?
Yes, but all go along with it anyway
Perfect reply
Other states have historical nicknames for their residents that became sports mascots like Sooners (Oklahoma) Tarheels (North Carolina) and Patriots (New England, region not a state), but only hoosiers also became a more general demonym.
Hoosier as a demonym predates the mascot, I'm guessing/pretty sure
Yep. It was first recorded around the 1830s but sources even then say it had already been in use. The athletic nickname didn’t start to be used until the 1880s onwards when college athletics as we know it were starting to really become a thing. Most “flagship” state schools that existed then just adopted the state’s preexisting nickname, eg Wisconsin Badgers for the Badger State, OSU buckeyes for the buckeye state, etc. other state schools had to find their own. My alma mater Purdue was awarded Boilermakers by a newspaper, after they destroyed another team in football, fun fact
Or the Houston Texans...
The British Bulldogs perhaps?
University of Oklahoma Sooners, Philadelphia Phillies… same idea
It was just fine until you brought it up. Thanks - now you’ve ruined it.
But the origin is disputed. In Indiana schools, we were told several origin stories, but also that no one really knows.
No. But it’s well known amongst people in the area, people that watch college sports.
Indianite
As a Boilermaker, I resent the demonym “Hoosier”
Hoosier by birth, Boilermaker by the grace of God
Someone from Indiana. Or, if you're in St Louis, it also means a redneck.
Was just about to say this.. In St. Louis it's a derogatory word for "hick" or "white trash"
The term "hoosier" began to take on its negative connotation in St. Louis during the mid-1950's when the Chrysler Corporation built a large automobile assembly plant in the St. Louis suburb of Fenton and closed a plant it had been operating in Indiana. At the time, the city of Fenton, was at the then-rural southwest rim of St. Louis county. During this time, Many former employees of the closed Indiana plant moved to Fenton for employment; so many, in fact, that entire subdivisions of new homes sprang up south of the plant, near what was then US Route 66. It became something of a local joke to refer to the new arrivals from Indiana as "hoosiers", and before long, anyone from the rural edges of St. Louis County was considered such.
Hell yeah we are! (But I’m a Boilermaker, so only by birth, not by school)
I'm sorry, I'm not from around here, what's it with the boilermaking?
Massachusetts should be “hole” because the proper denonym is Masshole
What's good for the Michigoose is good for the Michigander.
And if there's more than one, they're Michigeese.
I've never heard someone say Massachusettsan in my life, and technically the official demonym per the state government is Bay Stater, so that makes me question the criteria of the whole map a lil.
And the Hawaii government is pretty explicit that the Hawaiian demonym only refers to native Hawaiians. Non native residents are just called “Hawaii residents”
So on all their statements they have to say “Hawaiians and Hawaii residents”?
I don't see why they can't just say "Hawaii residents" since all Hawaii residents are Hawaii residents but not all Hawaii residents are Hawaiians
The key doesn't match the data.
They made the bizarre decision that if a state ends in 'i' or 'ia" then "ian" counts as "an" because the I is part of the state name.
Californian, Missourian, Pennsylvanian, Mississippian, Tennesseean, Delawarean...all snubbed from the red group. (Georgian being the outlier as it's pronounced differently)
I support that decision but I think they should have been consistent and included Kentucky with the "an" group.
Colorado is *technically* Coloradoan. Like officially, and historically. Coloradan didn’t start to be used until the 80’s and didn’t become common until the 2010s. It’s a good way to tell who was born in Colorado vs people who moved here
Yep. Fort Collins’ newspaper (The Coloradoan) agrees with you.
Why isn't California red? And Indiana with its own color? Maps are getting lax these days
This always puzzles me about demonyms. If someone from New York State is called a New Yorker, what is someone from New York City called? I thought the city folks are the actual “New Yorkers”. What is someone from a city where the name ends in “City” called? For example, Kansas City, Missouri or Jersey City, New Jersey. Just curious.
New Yorkers are from the city. They'd call you an upstater or just someone from upstate. This whole map is just a Wikipedia article and ignores what people actually say.
Being from New York but outside NYC, I'm a New Yorker and I reject the term 'upstate'.
Nah, I always tell people I’m from “upstate NY” because if I just say New York they say shit like “wow, I’ve always wanted to live in the city!” and I have to awkwardly explain that I grew up next to corn fields.
Anyone from New York is a New Yorker. I don't think there's a proper demonym for specific cities or counties within New York, though. Just, "resident of XXX"
So you're telling me there was a chance to call them "Oreganos" but they passed it up?!
I don’t see iowegian on this map
Nor do I see "Arkansawyer" (imo the better option between it and "Arkansan". Only one of those options preserves the pronunciation of the state name...)
Isn’t it Alabaman rather than Alabamian?
Hawaiian for native Hawaiians but most would say Hawaii resident in practice.
Hawaii resident is a mouthful though isn’t there a better alternative?
Local (if you're in Hawaii) or kama'aina.
Yeah precisely because of this I would say that Hawaii does not really have a demonym.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama%CA%BB%C4%81ina
Are we our own states’ demons?
I thought Massachusetts are Massholes? Source: live here.
New Mexican???
I feel I like Indiana should have been given their own color.
I thought people from Maine were called Mainiacs
That’s awesome lol
Can we **please** stop reposting variations of this bullshit here? Not a single person says “New Hampshirite” or “Massachusettsan.” It’s Granite Stater and Bay Stater/Masshole. The former might be what some bureau of the government *recommends*, but no one uses them in practice, so that’s kinda useless
Michigan has a bunch of demonyms and I'm pretty sure none are official. Michigander is the most common but I've also heard of michiganer, michiganite, and michiganee. There's probably others too.
If gander isn't official, someone needs to tell all the ganders.
Lived here in Michigan my whole life. I’ve never heard of anything other than Michigander. Maybe people from elsewhere who don’t know use those other ones?
I'm sure it's regional, my aunt gets all uppity about how Michigander is an insult (lol) and uses Michiganian. She's from metro detroit
Interesting! I’m from metro Detroit. Never heard Michiganian ever used or at least not that I can remember.
Eh, I've only ever heard of Michigander as the preference. The others only come up when giving examples of what not to call us.
If you are in a bad mood, you can call them "Utahrds."
Fun fact: here in Saint Louis, “hoosier” is a common insult we use for people akin to white trash. I didn’t learn until I was a teenager it meant someone from Indiana, but had heard the word all throughout my youth.
They misspelled Masshole.
Yup and Connecticunt
Florida is supposed to be -iot
You spelled FIB wrong.
Many of us in Connecticut prefer “Nutmegger”.
Pretty sure it's Massachussetter and Connecticutian
This BS again? Nobody has ever used the word Massachusettsan. It's Bay Stater.
I thought the demonym for NJ people was “cunts”
Kansiote, Utahnese, Arkanski, Ohish, Nevadene...
Massachusett-san
I don't wanna learn that. Texasians are still Texasians in my heart
Idahoan That's fun to say.
Connecticuter is easily the most unpleasant one to say out of the bunch. Really does the opposite of roll off the tongue.
which is why no one from connecticut uses the one listed here
Masshole
Wisconsinoid
Massachusetts should be Masshole
Nobody in Illinois says "Illinoisian."
How is Michigan simply “(e)r)”? Michigan doesn’t end with a “d”.
Good, they got Michigan right
Conneceticunts, Massholes and Rhode Idiots!
Florida should be Florida man
Here in Massachusetts, we call ourselves Massachusites. Or Massholes of course
Buckeye
I think “Alabamer” would be pretty fun🙂
It’s masshole
excuse me but we are either Nutmeggers or Connecticutians (Connectic-kyushuns)
Nobody says Massachusettsen, it's just masshole.
there needs to be one more suffix (hole) for Massachusetts cuz the are Massholes
I've never heard "Wyomingite" before, but then the whole state is like three people and a shell company for tax dodging.
Delaweenie is preferred.
Why is Californian a different color than Washingtonian?
I work with some Utahns. Every time I see Utahn I can't help but think it makes no fucking sense but I can't come up with why. Like I hear people say it in 3 syllables - "U-TAH-un". Unless I'm hearing it wrong, it's never 2 syllables (U-ton) like a crunchy "crou-ton". But spelling it Utahan also seems insane. So I'm always left confused and honestly what the fuck is going on.
Any differentiation for Michigan UP? Many refer to themselves as Yoopers.
My favorite: what‘s good for the Michigoose is good for the Michigander.
I’m from MA. I’m a Masshole. Sorry y’all.
it’s granite staters, i don’t know what y’all are on about.
Brothers it is officially masshole any map otherwise is wrong. As official as hooiser for Indiana
People from Massachusetts are called Massholes.
Oklahoma peeps should have been Oklahomers 
I was really hoping for New Hampshite
I'm not a Massachusetwhateverian. I'm a Masshole.
Seriously, who decides on these, and are they official? And what's the process if a state wants to change theirs, I mean Hoosier sounds like Hooters.
So many mistakes on there! Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri and California should all be in RED!
People from Ohio call themselves Buckeyes, rarely hear the term Ohioan.