Lets call Hoosiers, Hoosiers

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Indiana’ s Senators on a mission to change calling Indiana residents “Indianans”.

 

 

Indiana’s senators want the government to call Hoosiers Hoosiers.

The Government Printing Office Style Manual includes preferred terms for people in each state. Indiana residents are officially not Hoosiers, but “Indianans.” Republican Dan Coats found bipartisan agreement with fellow Senator Joe Donnelly (D) in writing the G-P-O to ask that the official term be changed when the eight-year revision of the style guide comes out at the end of the year.

The senators call that word “a little jarring” and “nails on a chalkboard.”

Coats says even Purdue fans should embrace the change — “Hoosiers” has been in common usage since the 1830s, half a century before basketball was even invented.