Re: CHAT Cities

Emily Zilch scripsit:

> Here in San Diego, you CAN call yourself a Diegueña... but you confuse
> people because the Tiipay-Iipay-Kumeyaay tribe were the original
> residents & hence are called Diegueños in English. Instead we get
> stupid "San Diegoan". I still stick to calling San Diego residents
> 'Diegueños' & Providence residents 'Providentials'.
"Providentials"?  Ho.  No one has ever proposed a word for people from
Independence, Missouri (though "independentistas" comes to mind), nor
for Bar Harbor, Maine.

People from Poughkeepsie, N.Y. are traditionally Dorpians, but I don't
know if that usage is still remembered there.

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