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What Is a Hoosier? It’s safe to conclude the Hoosher and Hoosier nickname adopted by Indiana residents and for them by their nearby neighbors was derived from the dialect term (probably traceable from England) not uncommon among southern immigrants to Indiana and the Ohio Valley several years before [John] Finley arrived and penned his famous ...
A Hoosier cabinet, often shortened to "hoosier", is a type of free-standing kitchen cabinet popular in the early decades of the twentieth century. Almost all of these cabinets were produced by companies located in Indiana and the name derives from the largest of them, the Hoosier Manufacturing Co. of New Castle, Indiana .
A little more than a decade after Indiana joined the Union on December 11, 1816, newspapers began to refer to the residents of the newly admitted state as “Hoosiers.” (Alternate spellings included...
Hoosier, now spelled ubiquitously “H-O-O-S-I-E-R,” as well as several other phonetical versions, can be traced back to the American South, where it was used as a derogatory term for uneducated, uncouth people.
A Hoosier is an Indiana resident, and there wasn't much excitement behind the "Hoosier Pride" mascot that represented a regular person. While it's common for many professional teams to not...
For well over a century and a half the people of Indiana have been called Hoosiers. It is one of the oldest of state nicknames and has had a wider acceptance than most. True, there are Buckeyes of Ohio, the Suckers of Illinois and the Tarheels of North Carolina -- but none of these has had the popular usage accorded Hoosier.
If you're from Wisconsin, you're a Wisconsinite. But if you're from Indiana, you're a Hoosier through and through! Natives of Indiana wear this curious-sounding nickname with unmatched pride, even if they, like everyone else, aren't exactly sure what it means.
The word “Hoosier,” which today is the demonym used to describe people from the state of Indiana, is a mystery nearing its second century.
People from certain U.S. states go by unusual names—Connecticuter, Michigander, Utahn, to name a few—but Hoosiers from Indiana are the only ones whose name isn’t based on their state name at all. Nobody really knows why it came into being, what the word originally meant, or where it came from.
Read "What is a Hoosier?" for an overview of the theories that had been put forth by the mid-1980s. A revised list that incorporates more recent scholarship on the topic is in the works.