• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    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. You’re not special.

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      9 hours ago

      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.

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        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

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        …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…

  • zach@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Hawaii is correct on their list but not on their map

    Hawaii – Hawaii resident

    bc Hawaiian is reserved for natives

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      9 hours ago

      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)

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      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.

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        10 hours ago

        Most people from where? Everyone in Indiana says Hoosier. Maybe it is a Midwest thing, but I don’t know how I’d react if someone called me an Indianan. It doesn’t even sound correct (admittedly, at least 20% of these sound really awkward).

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          I’m an Indianan because I don’t want to be associated with the 5th year high school in the Southern half of our start.

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        12 hours ago

        A question I wondered about is … how do you pronounce it?

        • ‘Who-see-er’
        • ‘Who-shur’

        or some other way I don’t know about?

        btw, nice to meet a Hoosier

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      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…

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        11 hours ago

        Connecticunt is also used by Massholes, which is both valid and why they’re on thin ice when being considered part of New England lol

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    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.