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Neat article about nicknames that stick... Yooper is official! I'm curious if other nicknames are already in the dictionary and how much of a fight there was to finally get it included? (Sooners?, Cheeseheads? What would nickname be for other states like MN, OH, PA, etc?)
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Looks like Indiana already is in the dictionary  Hoo·sier noun \ˈhü-zhər\ : a native or resident of Indiana —used as a nickname — Hoosier adjective
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Now I just wonder if they'll add "troll." Those who live in the lower peninsula are often referred to trolls since they live below the bridge.
Based on this great news I may just have to break out some of my Yooper's albums to impress my friends.
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Illinois has a nickname too, per my Wisconsin cousins... FIB's.. Might have to look it up on urban dictionary though.. 
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I know a retired school teacher and taxidermist in West Virginia that uses the word "Hoopies" to describe his fellow West Virginians.
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If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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Illinois has a nickname too, per my Wisconsin cousins... FIB's.. Might have to look it up on urban dictionary though.. That is an old one, I used that one in the 70s growing up in Wisconsin and look where I ended up.
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Arkansas is hillbillies or razorbacks lol
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I believe New Hampshire residents call Massachusetts residents Mass*oles. Kind of funny as a lot of people in that state are Massachusetts transplants.
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If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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