What's your state nickname?

[Kit-Ginevra]

In a delightfully old encyclopaedia of all sorts of literary trivia, I found this little section.Some I know well,others not so.And some are definitely not the most appealing of epithets

Nickname of the United States' inhabitants:

Alabama-lizards,Arkansas-toothpicks,California-goldhunters,Colorado-rovers,Connecticut-wooden nutmegs,Delaware-muskrats,Florida-fly up the creeks,Georgia-buzzards,Illinois-suckers,Indiana-hoosiers
Iowa-hawkeyes,Kansas-jayhawkers,Kentucky-corncrackers,Louisiana-creoles,Maine-foxes,Maryland-crawthumpers,Michigan-wolverines,Minnesota-gophers,Mississippi-tadpoles,Missouri-pukes
Nebraska-bugeaters,Nevada-sage hens,New Hampshire-granite boys,New Jersey-blues or clamcatchers,New York-knickerbockers,North Carolina-tarboilers or tuckoes,Ohio-buckeyes,Oregon-webfeet or hard cases,Pennsylvania-Pennanites or leatherheads,Rhode Islands-gunflints,South Carolina-weasels,Tennessee-whelps,Texas-beefheads,Vermont-Green Mountain boys,Virginia-beadies,Wisconsin-badgers

[EricKei]

I can really only speak to Louisiana -- Back in ye olde days, "Criollo/Creole" was indeed an insult used to refer to people of (Castilian) Spanish descent who were either born in the New World or en route to it, as I recall. These days, it just means "Louisianian of Spanish descent." In the past, it has also referred to people of various minorities whose ancestors are from the area, always in an insulting way.

If anything, I would have expected "Cajun" as an epithet, though that isn't an insult -- it's just a verbal descendant of "Acadian," and describes Louisianans of French descent by way of what is now the Nova Scotia area of Canada ("Acadia" to their ancestors).

[dalesys]

That list was probably compiled between August 1876 (Colorado) and November 1889 (North & South Dakota, Montana & Washington). They left out Massachusetts and West Virginia.