Template:Adjectivals and demonyms for US states
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NB In America, states' names are used as adjectives as well as nouns; adding -an or other such suffix to a state's name produces a demonym, not an adjective[citation needed] . This is unlike elsewhere in the English-speaking world[citation needed] .
| Name | Adjectival (mostly used outside U.S.) |
Demonym | |
|---|---|---|---|
| colloquial | |||
| Alabama | Alabamian | Alabamians | |
| Alaska | Alaskan | Alaskans | |
| Arizona | Arizonan | Arizonans | |
| Arkansas | Arkansan | Arkansans | |
| California | Californian | Californians | |
| Colorado | Coloradan | Coloradans, Coloradoans | |
| Connecticut | Connecticuters | "Nutmeggers" | |
| Delaware | Delawarean | Delawareans | |
| Florida | Floridian | Floridians | |
| Georgia | Georgian | Georgians | |
| Hawaii | Hawaiian | Hawaiians | Hawaiian: "Kamaʻāina" (natives) "Malihini" (non-natives) |
| Idaho | Idahoan | Idahoans | |
| Indiana | "Hoosiers" | ||
| Illinois | Illinoisan | Illinoisans | |
| Iowa | Iowan | Iowans | |
| Kansas | Kansan | Kansans | |
| Louisiana | Louisianans, Louisianians | ||
| Maine | Mainers | "Down Easters" | |
| Maryland | Marylanders | "Free Staters" "Old Liners" |
|
| Massachusetts | Bay Staters | ||
| Michigan | Michiganders, Michiganians | ||
| Minnesota | Minnesotan | Minnesotans | |
| Montana | Montanan | Montanans | |
| Nebraska | Nebraskan | Nebraskans | |
| New Hampshire | New Hampshirite | New Hampshirites | |
| New Jersey | New Jerseyans, New Jerseyites | ||
| New Mexico | New Mexican | New Mexicans | |
| New York | New Yorkers | ||
| North Carolina | North Carolinian | North Carolinians | |
| Oklahoma | Oklahoman | Oklahomans | |
| Ohio | Ohioans | ||
| Oregon | Oregonian | Oregonians | |
| Pennsylvania | Pennsylvanian | Pennsylvanians | |
| Rhode Island | Rhode Islanders | ||
| South Carolina | South Carolinian | South Carolinians | |
| Texas | Texan | Texans | |
| Utah | Utahn, Utahan | Utahns, Utahans | |
| Vermont | Vermonters | ||
| Virginia | Virginian | Virginians | |
| Washington | Washingtonian | Washingtonians | |
| West Virginia | West Virginian | West Virginians | |
| Wisconsin | Wisconsinite | ||
| Wyoming | Wyomingites | ||
