Can anyone please tell me to which state the term Hoosier refers, and why?
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it all started with a bridge being built between Indiana and Kentucky. The Man in Charge of the Indiana side was named Sam Hoosier. People started refuring to his workers as hoosiers.
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I would imagine it's one of the Desert states, like Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico.\n\nA little bit of Trivia for you however, here are some real cities in the united states with some interesting names\n\nIntercourse, Pennsylvania\nFrankenstein, Missouri\nRoachtown, Illinois\nBuddha, Indiana\nToad Suck, Arkansas\nYeehaw Junction, Florida\nMonkey's Elbow, Kentucky\nNo Name, Colorado
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i am not sure, but i think there are alot of national landmarks in indiana that are popular, it depends on where you wanna go while there.  West Baden Springs, The James Dean Memorial Gallery, The Indianapolis Motor Speedway to name a few. Try to visit the weblink below, maybe it can help more.
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Good sports teams. . .good state school.  A major film--Breaking Away was set there in the early 1980's.  It is also the home of the Hoosiers.
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I grew up in West Virginia.  In the seventh grade, our Civics textbook referred to pockets of poverty in the "mountains and hollows" of West Virginia.  I raised my hand and asked what a "hollow" was.  Everybody laughed real hard at me!  I knew what a "holler" was, but I never heard of a "hollow!"
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I think it is a mispelling of Kentucky.Kentucky is like all other states,it has some of all the types of people you described.
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http://www.ourbrowncounty.com/0701s1.htm\n\nHere is the link to the first Brown County races.Racing is big here in Indy.
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tennessee\n\ntennis-ee
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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. \n\nyet some more trivial knowledge ;-)
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not sure about Indiana, but Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois do.
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nope im from  INDIANA
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Arizona, Hawai'i and parts of Indiana (although Indiana is changing).
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you might be confuse because indiana airport code is IND and indonesia is also short to IND\nbut like everybody say\nindonesia ia a country in south east asia beetwen china and australia \nand indiana is a state in america west to ohio east to illinois north to kentucky and south to michigan\n\nwhy i know cos i am from indonesia who lived in indiana\nwhata a nice coincident
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Indiana\n• "Spiteful Gossip" and "talking behind a person's back" are illegal. \n• A man over the age of 18 may be arrested for statutory rape if the passenger in his car is not wearing her socks and shoes, and is under the age of 17. \n• A person who dyes, stains, or otherwise alters the natural coloring of a bird or rabbit commits a Class B misdemeanor. (Ind. Code 15-2.1-21-13(b) \n• A sports agent is supposed to give a college 10 days notice before luring a star athlete into the professional ranks. \n• A three dollar fine per pack will be imposed on anyone playing cards in Indiana under the Act for the Prevention of Gaming. \n• All males 18 to 50 years old must work six days a year on public roads. \n• Anyone 14 or older who profanely curses, damns or swears by the name of God, Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, shall be fined one to three dollars for each offense, with a maximum fine of ten dollars per day. \n• Auburn: It is illegal to bike, roller-skate, skateboard, or inline skate in a commercially zoned area. For these offenses, there is a fine of no more than $5 or the impounding of one's bicycle for a period not to exceed 30 days. \n• Back in 1924, a monkey was convicted in South Bend of the crime of smoking a cigarette and sentenced to pay a 25 dollar fine and the trial costs. \n• Bathing is prohibited during the winter. \n• Baths may not be taken between the months of October and March. \n• Beech Grove: It is forbidden to eat watermelon in the park. \n• Check forgery can be punished with public flogging up to 100 stripes. \n• Citizens are not allowed to attend a cinema or theatre nor ride in a public streetcar within at least four hours after eating garlic. \n• Drinking from your own bottle in a bar can lead to your arrest. \n• Drinks on the house are illegal. \n• Due to a typographical error, a routine ordinance in Shelbyville, Ind., about charging for bad checks started out: "Whereas, the city of Shelbyville through its various governmental fascists receives numerous checks..." This was changed to "governmental facets."\n• Elkhart: It is illegal for barbers to threaten to cut off kid's ears. \n• Evansville: While driving on Main Street you may not have your lights on. \n• Fort Wayne: You may not sell or play on a radio broadcast, the record "It's In the Book". \n• Gary: Within four hours of eating garlic, a person may not enter a movie house, theater, or ride a public streetcar. \n• Grocery stores may not sell any type of cold liquor. \n• Hotel sheets must be exactly 99 inches long and 81 inches wide. \n• If any person has a puppet show, wire dancing or tumbling act in the state of Indiana and receives money for it, they will be fined $3 under the Act to Prevent Certain Immoral Practices. \n• In Gary, Ind., persons are prohibited from attending a movie house or other theater and from riding a public streetcar within four hours of eating garlic.\n• In Indiana it is illegal to sell laughing gas with the intent to induce laughter. \n• In South Bend, Indiana, it is illegal to make a monkey smoke a cigarette.\n• It is against the law to pass a horse on the street.\n• It is illegal in Elkhart, Indiana, for a barber to threaten to cut off a youngster's ears. \n• It is illegal for a liquor store to sell cold soft drinks. \n• It is illegal for a man to be sexually aroused in public. \n• It is illegal for barbers to threaten to cut off kid's ears.\n• It is illegal to sell cars on Sunday. \n• Liquor stores may not sell milk. \n• Men are prohibited from standing in a bar. \n• Monkeys are forbidden to smoke cigarettes in South Bend.\n• Mustaches are illegal if the bearer has a tendency to habitually kiss other humans. \n• No one may catch a fish with his bare hands. \n• One man may not back into a parking spot because it prevents police officers from seeing the license plate. \n
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What state is that from?
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The phrase Midwest goes back to the early 1800's.  It first referred to the Ohio River region, and pretty much everything west of the Mississippi was the West (hence, St. Louis's nickname, "Gatway to the West")  This is simply due to the way the nation expanded.  If you're unfamiliar with the way the U.S. expansion occurred, I've linked to a map below.  Note that the dates on this map are the dates that the U.S. acquired those lands, not the dates of statehood.\n\nIn fact, the states of OH, IN, MI, IL, WI, and part of MN (the Great Lakes states) used to be called the Northwest Territory, before they became states.  Ohio was the first of those to become a state, which occurred in 1803.\n\nToday, the states typically considered to be in the Midwest are the Great Lakes states and the Northern Plains (Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri).
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http://packing.org click on the state info then click on Indiana.