# What do you call a person from New Hampshire? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Show\ **Created:** [March 5, 2012, 9:07am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-person-from-new-hampshire/71294 "2012-03-05T09:07:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Peachy\_Keene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee7513/32.png) [@Peachy\_Keene](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Peachy_Keene)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 9:07am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-person-from-new-hampshire/71294/1 "2012-03-05T09:07:34Z")
Listening to the show this morning, I heard the guys refer to people from New Hampshire as “New Hampshireites”. As a transplanted Connecticutie who recently retired north (go figure…) I have to take exception to that. Folks around here who take such things seriously will tell you that the proper term is “Granite Stater”. However, those of us who are possessed of the sense of humor that made George Carlin want to have his ashes scattered in Spofford Lake prefer another, more playful moniker. So, please guys, don’t call us New Hampshireites. I’m happy to say that I have joined the ranks of those who live in the shadow of what used to be the Old Man of the Mountain: a proud New Hampster! (Get it right or pay the price, bud!) ---
**Author:** ![littlemouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@littlemouse](https://community.cartalk.com/u/littlemouse)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-person-from-new-hampshire/71294/2 "2012-03-05T14:07:59Z")
I don’t know, but it’s always super to hear from them! ---
**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 5:10pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-person-from-new-hampshire/71294/3 "2012-03-05T17:10:00Z")
Funny you should ask, originally being from one of the states I have had the same curiousity about. Connecticutions? Connecticats? ---
**Author:** ![mleich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@mleich](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mleich)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-person-from-new-hampshire/71294/4 "2012-03-05T18:43:31Z")
Cold! ---
**Author:** ![Docnick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Docnick](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Docnick)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 11:12pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-person-from-new-hampshire/71294/5 "2012-03-05T23:12:41Z")
I’d go for “New Hamper”. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-person-from-new-hampshire/71294/6 "2012-03-06T02:20:04Z")
New Hampshirite is a common term, as is the more formal Granite Stater. I say this as a native New Hampshirite of some 60+ years. What do people from New Hampshire call people from Massachusetts? Tourists! ---
**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2012, 2:29am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-person-from-new-hampshire/71294/7 "2012-03-06T02:29:07Z")
Granite Stater is the equivalent of calling someone from Wisconsin a Cheesehead (come smell our dairy air! or perhaps in homage to your motto, eat cheese or die!). Wisconsin has the same proper suffix as New Hampshire- ite, preferences aside… ---
**Author:** ![dagosa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/dagosa/32/9837_2.png) [@dagosa](https://community.cartalk.com/u/dagosa)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2012, 2:29am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-person-from-new-hampshire/71294/8 "2012-03-06T02:29:28Z")
Cheap. But so as not to offend, frugal. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2012, 3:48am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-person-from-new-hampshire/71294/9 "2012-03-06T03:48:20Z")
financial preferences evaluation accepted. And confirmed. ---
**Author:** ![Rod-Knox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Rod-Knox](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Rod-Knox)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2012, 4:15am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-person-from-new-hampshire/71294/10 "2012-03-06T04:15:17Z")
Yankees. ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2012, 4:25am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-person-from-new-hampshire/71294/11 "2012-03-06T04:25:07Z")
People from Seattle are Seattleites, things could be worse! ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2012, 4:39am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-person-from-new-hampshire/71294/12 "2012-03-06T04:39:18Z")
Just think–it could always be worse. What if you were from Uranus? **;-))** ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-person-from-new-hampshire/71294/13 "2012-03-06T04:47:52Z")
From WIKI, Big Bone Lick State Park is located at Big Bone in Boone County, Kentucky. It is located on Beaver Road and between the communities of Beaverlick and Rabbit Hash. Hands on head. > **[Big Bone Lick State Park](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bone_Lick_State_Park)** > > Big Bone Lick State Park is located at Big Bone in Boone County, Kentucky. The name of the park comes from the Pleistocene megafauna fossils found there. Mammoths are believed to have been drawn to this location by a salt lick deposited around sulphur springs. Other animals including forms of bison, caribou, deer, elk, horse, mastodon, moose, musk ox, peccary, sloth, and possibly tapir also grazed the vegetation and salty earth around the springs that the animals relied on for their diet. T In 20... ---
**Author:** ![dadoctah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@dadoctah](https://community.cartalk.com/u/dadoctah)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2012, 5:09am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-person-from-new-hampshire/71294/14 "2012-03-06T05:09:32Z")
I’ve been an Angeleno, a Seattleite, a Silver Citizen and now a Phoenician. Never lived in a place where you could just stick “-an” on the end and be done with it. If I read this list correctly, Tom and Ray are Massachusettsites, but my spellcheck puts gripemarks on that word. (It’s also complaining about “spellcheck”!) Some of my favorite toponyms (that’s what these terms are called) are “haligonian” (someone from Halifax) , “monegasque” (from Monaco), and “burkinabe” (Burkina Faso). Places for which I’ve never heard a term that I’m completely happy with are Arkansas (the list says “arkansawyer”) and Utah (either “utahan” or “utahn”, but both pronounced the same). ---
**Author:** ![f848](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@f848](https://community.cartalk.com/u/f848)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2012, 5:17am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-person-from-new-hampshire/71294/15 "2012-03-06T05:17:37Z")
While in southeastern Oklahoma, I hear Arkansas radio stations. They seem to refer to themselves as Arkansans. My spell checker doesn’t object. Edit: it’s pronounced as: ar KAN s’ns ---
**Author:** ![Docnick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Docnick](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Docnick)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-person-from-new-hampshire/71294/16 "2012-03-06T22:22:20Z")
I’ve also driven through Tumwater, somewhere in Minnesota, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-person-from-new-hampshire/71294/17 "2012-03-06T22:38:33Z")
I’ve been to Climax, but I can’t remember if it was in North Dakota or Minnesota. ---
**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-person-from-new-hampshire/71294/18 "2012-03-07T03:33:21Z")
In Tennessee, we have Bucksnort, Frog Jump, Green Frog and I used to work in a place just off Hog Wallow Rd, pronounced Hog Waller Rd. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-person-from-new-hampshire/71294/19 "2012-03-08T12:27:05Z")
So you wanna be called a hampster? Why not, Minnesotans are gophers. Where is New Hampshire anyway? Is that in Canada? ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-person-from-new-hampshire/71294/20 "2012-03-08T22:56:21Z")
Close enough. [Next page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-person-from-new-hampshire/71294.md?page=2)