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U.S. State Inhabitants
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| A Badger | | Wisconsin |
In the 1820s prospectors came to the state looking for minerals and the miners lived like badgers in tunnels in the hillsides- the state animal is also the badger.
| A Bay Stater | | Massachusetts |
| A Cornhusker | | Nebraska |
| A Downeaster | | Maine |
| A Hoosier | | Indiana |
The term 'hoosier' has been in use since at least 1826 but the etemology of the word is unknown.
| A Jay-Hawker | | Kansas |
| A Longhorn | | Texas |
| A Nutmegger | | Connecticut |
| A Sooner | | Oklahoma |
The name was derived from the "sooner clause" of the Indian Appropriation Act, which disallowed the occupation of the Unassigned Lands prior to their being open for settlement.
| A Tarheel | | North Carolina |
| A Volunteer | | Tennessee |
| A Wolverine | | Michigan |
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