Wyomingite? Doesn't look right to me. Wyominger seems more logical.
I'd argue that Kentucky should be green. Sure the 'y' becomes an 'i', but it's still pronounced like Kentucky+-an so the difference is purely orthographic.
And changing a final 'y' to 'i' is extremely common when adding a suffix. (cf. happiness, beautiful, angrier)
Hawaii is correct on their list but not on their map
Hawaii – Hawaii resident
bc Hawaiian is reserved for natives
Weirdest one is people from Indiana are called 'Hoosiers'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoosier
Most awkward one is Connecticuter .... it sounds more like a profession than in describing where someone comes from.
Having grown up there, I always liked Connecticutian as a serious one, but also accepted is Nutmegger (it's the nutmeg state) and best jokey name is Connecticunt (pairs well with our neighboring Massholes)
Oh that's SO much easier to say!!
Hello from Litchfield county
"Nutmegger" is a lot more common. I've never heard Connecticuter. I have heard Connecticunt a bit.
Yeah but. I lived in Indiana for a long time and most people just say Indianan. Hoosier is more of a Midwest thing. I'm from Arkansas, and that and Florida is a little odd. It's pronounced differently than the state is.
I had an American history teacher in high school who was adamant we weren't Arkansan because fuck Kansas (paraphrased). He said we were Arkansonian. It doesn't seem to have caught on.
I've heard them called Connecticritters and I like that
We usually call drivers from Connecticut Connecticunts. And Mass drivers are Massholes. Rhode Island drivers are to be avoided at all costs.
Massachusettsan? Nope, it's Masshole, c'mon my guy we all know this
Yeah, no one has ever used the term “Massachusettsan”, fucking ever.
Also, everyone I’ve ever known from Connecticut consistently responds to “dipshit”, so the map is a bit flawed…
Came here to say this. Also, Massholes drive like massholes and have rightfully earned their name.
Hoosi is the best state
This is wrong... People from Texas are Texicans.
I wanna kick Ted Cruz in the Texicals.
Had a convo about this with a pair of (very white) people from Texas. They unironically called themselves Tejanos.
Not sure how widespread that preference is among Texas people.
...tejanos around here can be of any ethnicity: it's considered a cultural identity (not unlike hispanic or latino) for folks with deep roots in the original regional melting-pot but it's not synonymous with the texian or broader post-revolutionary texan population...
There's a weird sect of white Texans who call themselves Tejanos as a constructed cultural identity that has nothing to do with historical Tejanos.
Very much the kind of people who will sit in a truck stop diner for eight hours a day explaining to anyone who will listen that Texas is the only state that can legally secede because blah blah blah the republic blah blah Texas is actually its own nation, technically blah blah blah the Texas Rangers actually outrank the feds because precedence blah blah blah
TIL the word "demonyms".
I prefer "connecticutie"
New hampshite.
I’m a Utahn and so’s my wife!
I always have know it as Utahite, like Nephite.
Some people say Michiganian. They’re wrong, mind you, but they do.
I’m pretty sure people from Maine are “Mainions”
Source: my uncle works for Maine
Mainiacs
Tell me you're Indianan without telling me you're Indianan.
If you want Hoosier on there then you have to put stuff like Appalachian too.
Edit - on rereading this it looks a bit harsh, it was meant with a wink and a smile.
That's still a cultural name not the proper English Demonym for Indiana.
Wisconsinite sounds like some sort of flaky mineral.
Or a 70s band.
I have family pretty much all over the eastern seaboard, and elsewhere in smaller numbers.
Most the these are accurate overall.
However! There is another term for folks from the Carolinas, Carolingians. It seems to have faded from common use, but several of my cousins around my age were still seeing it in textbooks.
It was also applied to North and South Carolingians separately, not just to all people in the Carolinas as a whole.
Arkansan is an interesting one to me.
Is it like Arkanzin (how you would say Kansan plus the Ar- part) or more like Arkanson (with the softer s)?
Inz or enz.
The folks I know from there often elide the vowel heavily so that it sounds more like arkanzn
Why is there an extra ‘i’ in Louisianan?
As if French didn't already have enough vowels.
Because it ends in a vowel maybe? That seems to be the pattern
I knew most of them but did not know what "demonym" meant. My guess would have been derogatory names for states.
I too identify myself as some kind of demon :-P
It's Sconnie
You occasionally hear/see "Coloradoan" here, too.
South Dakota is wrong, here. We call ourselves "South Dakotants", with a T sount at the end.
