People from Indiana

[lukethedrifter]

They seem to take a real pride in their Indiana-ness. And apparently know everyone else from Indiana.

Rave?

[Radbird]

Rant: They don't apply the term hoosier correctly.

[StL Dan]

Some of the grumpiest people I've ever encountered were Hoosiers.

Then again, some of my own, fantastic in laws are also Hoosiers.

[heyzeus]

“Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian--that's the kind of people for me.”

-Kurt Vonnegut

[Freed Roger]

People from Iowa thank you for picking on some other state.

[Spider John]

People from Iowa thank you for picking on some other state.

Iowa's a state ?

[IndyCards13]

I'm from Indiana and we have some real crabby people here.

[pioneer98]

“Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian--that's the kind of people for me.”

-Kurt Vonnegut

I wonder if Vonnegut was aware of this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Klan

[heyzeus]

“Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian--that's the kind of people for me.”

-Kurt Vonnegut

I wonder if Vonnegut was aware of this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Klan

Yes, he lamented that fact as well.

"I would have kept to myself that the borders of Indiana, when I was a boy, cradled not only the
birthplace of Eugene V. Debs, but the national head quarters of the Ku Klux Klan."

[Valpo Cardinal Fan]

Actually if the Lutherans hadn't purchased bankrupt Valparaiso University in 1926 the KKK was planning on turning it into a Klan style university the size of Purdue. If not for the downfall of Stephenson, the Indiana grand dragon, due to a sexual scandal on a train, Valpo might have been the first Klan university.