U.S. States
This is a list of terms, not manifestly pejorative, which are used, or have been used in the past, to designate the residents of specific U.S. states.
| State | Official (recommended by U.S. GPO) |
Official, unofficial or informal alternates |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Alabamian | Alabaman |
| Alaska | Alaskan | Ice Chipper |
| Arizona | Arizonan | Arizonian, Sand Cutter |
| Arkansas | Arkansan | Arkansawyer, Arkie |
| California | Californian | |
| Colorado | Coloradan | Coloradoan (archaic) |
| Connecticut | Connecticuter | Nutmegger, Connecticotian, Connecticutensian, Connecticutian |
| Delaware | Delawarean | Blue Hen's Chicken, Muskrat |
| District of Columbia | Washingtonian | |
| Florida | Floridian | Floridan |
| Georgia | Georgian | Buzzard, Sand-hiller |
| Hawaii | Hawaiian | Malihini (newcomer), Kamaʻāina (native-born nonethnic Hawaiian), Hawaii Resident, Islander |
| Idaho | Idahoan | Idahoer |
| Illinois | Illinoisan | Illinoisian, Flatlander, Sand-hiller, Egyptian |
| Indiana | Hoosier | Hoosier (official state designation), Indianian (archaic) |
| Iowa | Iowan | Hawkeye, Iowegian |
| Kansas | Kansan | Sunflower, Grasshopper |
| Kentucky | Kentuckian | |
| Louisiana | Louisianan | Louisianais (in French) |
| Maine | Mainer | Down Easter or Downeaster, Mainiac, Pine Tree, Fox, Lumberjack |
| Maryland | Marylander | |
| Massachusetts | Massachusettsan | Bay Stater (official term used by state government), Massachusite (traditional) |
| Michigan | Michiganian | Michigander, Michiganer, Michiganese, Michigine, Wolverine, Michiganite, Yooper/Troll (for residents of the Upper Peninsula and Lower Peninsula, respectively) |
| Minnesota | Minnesotan | Mud Duck |
| Mississippi | Mississippian | Stumpjumper |
| Missouri | Missourian | Bushwacker |
| Montana | Montanan | |
| Nebraska | Nebraskan | Cornhusker |
| Nevada | Nevadan | Nevadian |
| New Hampshire | New Hampshirite | Granite Boy, New Hampshireman |
| New Jersey | New Jerseyan | New Jerseyite |
| New Mexico | New Mexican | Nuevomexicano |
| New York | New Yorker | |
| North Carolina | North Carolinian | Tar Boiler, Tar Heel, North Carolinan |
| North Dakota | North Dakotan | NoDak |
| Ohio | Ohioan | Buckeye |
| Oklahoma | Oklahoman | Okie, Sooner |
| Oregon | Oregonian | Oregoner |
| Pennsylvania | Pennsylvanian | Pennamite, Coal Cracker |
| Rhode Island | Rhode Islander | Swamp Yankee |
| South Carolina | South Carolinian | Sand Lapper, South Carolinan |
| South Dakota | South Dakotan | |
| Tennessee | Tennessean | Volunteer, Big Bender, Butternut |
| Texas | Texan | Texian (Anglo-Texan - historical), Tejano (Mexican-Texan) |
| Utah | Utahn | Utonian, Utahan |
| Vermont | Vermonter | |
| Virginia | Virginian | |
| Washington | Washingtonian | |
| West Virginia | West Virginian | Mountaineer |
| Wisconsin | Wisconsinite | Cheesehead, Wisconsinian, Wisconsonian, Sconnie, Badger |
| Wyoming | Wyomingite | Wyoman |
Read more about this topic: List Of Adjectival And Demonymic Forms Of Place Names
Famous quotes containing the word states:
“The people of the United States have been fortunate in many things. One of the things in which we have been most fortunate has been that so far, due perhaps to certain basic virtues in our traditional ways of doing things, we have managed to keep the crisis of western civilization, which has devastated the rest of the world and in which we are as much involved as anybody, more or less at arm’s length.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“Nullification ... means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)