Wie nennt man die Einwohner der einzelnen Bundesstaaten der Vereinigten Staaten? 🌺🌸

*Masshole

50 states. 1 decent nickname.

okie

Connecticut is Nutmegger – nobody ever says Connecticuter

Hawaii Resident? Why not just Hawaiian?

Maineiacs.

People from Illinois in Wisconsin=FIBs.

I realize the map isn’t OP’s, which makes it more frustrating that a linguist wasn’t consulted when making this map. Blue/green and red are not different suffixes.

I’m a linguist and morphologist. Morphologically speaking, there’s no difference between -*ian* and -*an*. They represent different forms (allomorphs) of the same thing depending on the phonological environment and they never occur in the *same* phonological environment.

That is, between the two, there’s either some /i/ sound at the end of the state name already (which is applied inconsistently by the map-maker in the case of Tennessee) or there’s a stress alternation when the <i> is added. The only *possible* exception to this that I see is Louisiana, which appears to be a case of some kind of vocalic harmony, rather than it being a separate morpheme.

Edit:

For that matter, *Hoosier* doesn’t appear to have a suffix at all. Granted, the actual etymology of the word is unknown to literally everyone, but I’d venture to say it’s likely monomorphemic, synchronically (i.e. in its present form; a word doesn’t know its etymology, either).

South Carolinians… is what we call ourselves anyway. Its a bit of a mouthful, but I haven’t heard an alternative. I like to say Greenvillagers, for people in Greenville, lol.

Someone from NH is a Granite Stater

Nah you call people from Illinois FIBS.

Always thought North Dakota should have gone with “ite”

North Dakoterite sounds like a dessert you would find in North Dakota

„Hawaii resident“ seems like a subtle dig at colonialism and I’m here for it 

fwiw bammer and bammerneck are used to refer to fans of the Alabama Crimson Tide

I’ve never heard Jersian lol. I’ll take literally anything else including this non-exhaustive list below:

“From Jersey”

“People of the great and enlightened state of New Jersey”

“Fucking Jersey assholes”

Indiana is Hoosier. 

I could see why a Hawaiian would take issue with Residents calling themselves Hawaiian

Kentucker.

I dated a girl from Michigan, „Michigander“, in college. I don’t recommend that.

The -er in Hoosier isn’t a suffix.

I unironically have to tell people I’m a yinzer when it comes up. I guess pennsylvanian works for the rest of the state.