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Fellow Hoosiers in Central IN: Take Cover! (Original Post) Brigid Jun 2014 OP
I always wondered why folks in Indiana took that slur name and owned it LOL snooper2 Jun 2014 #1
 

snooper2

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1. I always wondered why folks in Indiana took that slur name and owned it LOL
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 03:47 PM
Jun 2014

I thought everyone knew what a hoosier was but maybe it was just us who grew up in Missery LOL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoosier

The word "Hoosier" is still used in St. Louis, Missouri, to denote a "yokel" or "white trash".[13] The word is also sometimes encountered in sea shanties such as Shanties from the Seven Seas[14] in reference to its former use to denote cotton-stowers, who would move bales of cotton to and from the holds of ships and force them in tightly by means of jackscrews. "To hoosier" is sometimes still encountered as a verb meaning "to trick" or "to swindle".[citation needed

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