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[Cicero]

What do you call someone from

New Jersey?
Connecticut?
MA? (I've only heard Masshole but somehow I don't quite think that is the proper term)
Utah?
Maine?
New Hampshire?
Vermont?

Brought to you by the realization that I haven't a clue.

[laurenpetro]

the first one is a New Jersey-an.

the rest? no clue.

[soxin2]

The nice proper terms or the not nice ones?

(I do self-identify as a Mass-hole and grew up in CT)

[pixy0stix]

Utah = Mormon

I HAD TO DO IT!

[katfco]

Massachusetts: Bostonian or New Englander.

[heyjude]

Apr 24, 2014 16:21:47 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Utah = Mormon

I HAD TO DO IT!

YOU BEAT ME TO IT!!!

[soxin2]

And H's NH friends call themselves Granite Staters.

[msmerymac]

It's called a demonym:

Vermonter
Utahn
Massachusettsan (or Bay Stater)
New Jersyan
New Hampshirite (I knew this one!)
Connecticuter
Mainer (I knew this one too!)

[PinkSquirrel]

Apr 24, 2014 16:23:07 GMT -5 katfco said:

Massachusetts: Bostonian or New Englander.

This.  I also self-identify as a Masshole

[lasagnasshole]

I know Mainer (but you'd better say it Main-ah) and Vermonter.

After all, there's a train called the Vermonter!

[msmerymac]

Apr 24, 2014 16:30:23 GMT -5 lasagnasshole said:

I know Mainer (but you'd better say it Main-ah) and Vermonter.

After all, there's a train called the Vermonter!

And there's a bunch of stuff called the Vermonster. Like sundaes and beer.

[soxin2]

Apr 24, 2014 16:23:07 GMT -5 katfco said:

Massachusetts: Bostonian or New Englander.

Central Mass people get real pissed off when you call them Bostonians or Western Mass folks.

[Velar Fricative]

Apr 24, 2014 16:28:09 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

It's called a demonym:

Vermonter
Utahn
Massachusettsan (or Bay Stater)
New Jersyan
New Hampshirite (I knew this one!)
Connecticuter
Mainer (I knew this one too!)

I don't think Connecticuter is correct. I have no idea if she just made this up but one woman I knew called herself a Connecticutian. I'll have to Google this.

[soxin2]

Apr 24, 2014 16:45:34 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Apr 24, 2014 16:28:09 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

It's called a demonym:

Vermonter
Utahn
Massachusettsan (or Bay Stater)
New Jersyan
New Hampshirite (I knew this one!)
Connecticuter
Mainer (I knew this one too!)

I don't think Connecticuter is correct. I have no idea if she just made this up but one woman I knew called herself a Connecticutian. I'll have to Google this.

Nutmegger
Nutmeg Stater
CT-er
Husky (aka the UConn team)
Connecticritter (this one is derogatory to most I know)


A lot of my friends go with generic New Englander.

[Velar Fricative]

Okay, Connecticuter is the official term but I think it sounds stupid so I will call them Nutmeggers.

blogs.courant.com/bill_weir/2009/11/are-we-connecticuters-connecti.html

[josieposy]

An Easterner (well except Utah).

[Velar Fricative]

And I did know New Jerseyans but I say Jersey peeps. I hereby decree that "Jersey Peep" be the official term.

[katfco]

Apr 24, 2014 16:35:10 GMT -5 soxin2 said:

Apr 24, 2014 16:23:07 GMT -5 katfco said:

Massachusetts: Bostonian or New Englander.

Central Mass people get real pissed off when you call them Bostonians or Western Mass folks.

I know; I'm from northeastern Mass, and still can't figure out what precisely we're called other than New Englanders.

[soxin2]

katfco - far as I can tell, most states (at least in New England) go by their state nicknames:
Granite State, Bay State, Ocean State, Nutmeg, etc..

But, with some regional specifications. There's also a lot of territorialism within the states, which is crazy when you compare the area of New England against other states.

[emilyj]

Apr 24, 2014 16:48:09 GMT -5 soxin2 said:

Apr 24, 2014 16:45:34 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

I don't think Connecticuter is correct. I have no idea if she just made this up but one woman I knew called herself a Connecticutian. I'll have to Google this.

Nutmegger
Nutmeg Stater
CT-er
Husky (aka the UConn team)
Connecticritter (this one is derogatory to most I know)


A lot of my friends go with generic New Englander.

I have also used and been called a Connecticoonian.

There is also Connecticunt.