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American Demonyms That Actually Work — Unlike Whatever the Government Recommends

Posted on February 5, 2026February 5, 2026 By Don MacLeod

The United States Government Publishing Office thinks people from Indiana should be called “Indianians.” Indiana — and the rest of the country — disagrees. For nearly two centuries, they’ve been Hoosiers, a term popularized by John Finley’s 1833 poem “The Hoosier’s Nest,” and no amount of federal paperwork is changing…

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