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

Rave?

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

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

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

“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

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

Freed Roger wrote:People from Iowa thank you for picking on some other state.

Iowa's a state ?

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

heyzeus wrote:“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

pioneer98 wrote:

heyzeus wrote:“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."

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.