How to insult someone from (name of state here)

Iowa is actually Idiots Out Walking About... or I Owe the World an Apology

 

Cityside one, for those in Minnesota....
Remember, when you date a girl from Edina, it's Every Day I Need Attention

 

Although it's possible Oklahomans view "Okie" as an acceptable term, I've heard folks in adjacent states use it as a term of derision (hi, grandpa!).

 

CT and Mass are the only two states I've lived in my 25 years, and I can definitely say Mass drivers (though I think I've actually heard "Massholes" more in MA than in CT) are more aggressive. Of course, if you're in Boston, you have to be.

 

People in Illinois are called flatlanders sometimes. I don't really get why that's insulting, though.

 

My rural Wisconsin relatives refer to any city folk as "flatlanders." Maybe that's supposed to be an opposite play on "hillbillies," even though the land is pretty flat where said relatives live.

My Upper Michigan relatives refer to Lower Peninsula people as "trolls," because they live below the bridge (Mackinac, that is).

 

The Florida residents who lived all their lives in New York, moved down to Florida and spend much of their summers in the mountains of North Carolina are either referred to as Floridiots or Halfbacks (begin in NY, move to FL and then go halfway back to NC).

 

Here's an unusual one: People in Missouri (particularly St. Louis) use the term "Hoosier" in place of hick, redneck, etc., though I don't think it necessarily is meant to deride folks from Indiana.

 

I haven't lived in NJ for more than 10 years, and I'm still annoyed when people do the Joe Piscopo-SNL 'Iam from Jersey. Are you from Jersey?' bit.

 

People from Charlotte are called Charlotteans (but they say it's pronounced Shar-la-TEE-uns).

 

Don't forget the two different degrees of Yankeedom.
A plain old "Yankee" is a northerner who comes to visit and leaves.
A "Goddamn Yankee" is a northerner who comes and stays.

 

Just learn how to pronounce Oregon, Washington and the towns...if you can't do that, people are offended.

It's not Or-e-gone or WaRsh-ing-ton (or WORSH-ing-ton), no matter how many people pronounce them that way.

And good luck with: Willamette (rhymes with dammit), Puyallup, Sequim, Wahkiakum, Estacada, Camas .... I could go on for days.

Finally, it's PIKE Place Market. NOT Pike'S Place.