What do folks of regions call themselves?

[Greylock]

No, no. Everyone below it is a Retired Yankee or Californian.

Well gawd bless you both. These days passed into memory and I thought everyone missed my [bad] joke...

For what it's worth, I cast a vote in a particularly contentious election in Memphis (my home town) back in '91 or '92. My father didn't much like the way I voted. When I up and moved to Illinois just a couple of monthes later his ringing condemnation was this...

"You got your man elected, and now you're moving to CANADIA?!?!"

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

"Canadia"

LOL!

 

[Snoweel]

(and I must repeat that Melbourne is not "mel-BORN").

W3rd.

'MEL-bun'

People from the Sutherland Shire district in Sydney call themselves Shire boys and Shire girls, I've noticed.

And collectively - 'Shire folk'.

If you live anywhere west of Parramatta, you're a Westie to Sydneysiders, especially those who live on the coast.

The snobs who live on the coast are worse than that. You're a Westie if you live anywhere west of the City!!! And growing up in Parramatta, I found that wherever you live, Westie territory is 10km west of there...

 

[Dirigible]

I've been an Aucklander for over 15 years now (we don't go by JAFA, ourselves, though you'll hear it applied to us by people from down-country), but I was born a Cantabrian...

*sniff, sniff* yeah, I though I smelled somethin' a bit... earthy.

As the Smurfster said, we call ourselves Aucklanders (or, in Games Workshop stores, Orklanders), everyone else calls us JAFAs. Though there has been a fad of late for embracing that term. It'll pass eventually, though; then we'll go back to ignoring everyone else in the country.

 

[Hypersmurf]

It'll pass eventually, though; then we'll go back to ignoring everyone else in the country.

Ev-ery-one...?

... oh, them. I tend to forget about them.

South of the Bombays and all.

-Hyp.

 

[Dirigible]

Sshhhhh, the bears'll hear you.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

The snobs who live on the coast are worse than that. You're a Westie if you live anywhere west of the City!!! And growing up in Parramatta, I found that wherever you live, Westie territory is 10km west of there...

It's true that a lot of people, especially in the eastern suburbs and on the northern beaches, equate anything west of, oh, Leichhardt with "westie country". Heh. This is not true. I'd say Parramatta and points west of it are where it starts - no offence.

Actually, since I moved to Sydney from Melbourne just under fourteen years ago, I've been kind of embarrassed by the associations people have with the area where I live, especially now that I've been living in Pymble and St Ives for the last six years. Luckily I'm not the kind of pampered, preppy jerk they associate with the area - I grew up in a country town in Victoria between the ages of five and nine, which are kind of formative, then Hornsby and Castle Hill (shudder) between nine and seventeen - but it's kind of shameful how accurate the stereotypes are.

Ah, well. At least I don't live in Rose Bay. Then I'd really be doomed.

 

[Esteban]

Ya, Buckeye trees just are not as common as they used to be. Mostly they get taken down for progress or farms.

But here in Columbus I hear people refer to them selves as Buckeyes a lot.

Well, as someone born and raised in the southern part of the state (Cincinnati to be exact) I can tell you that I have never referred to myself as a 'buckeye'. As has been pointed out many times around here (usually by Hoosiers) a buckeye is basically a 'useless nut'.

-Steve