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 |
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Famous quotes containing the word states:
“On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth,
When time is old and hath forgot itself,
When waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy,
And blind oblivion swallowed cities up,
And mighty states characterless are grated
To dusty nothing, yet let memory
From false to false among false maids in love
Upbraid my falsehood.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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