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Erythema Cervicalis · #26 Post by **Erythema Cervicalis** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:21 am

Now this here's uh subject I kin fully appreciate!

VAdame · #27 Post by **VAdame** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:09 pm

Here's my 83-year-old Mom's recollection of the term "hoosier" from her childhood in St. Louis:

You remember correctly. St. Louis 'hoosiers' has no connection with Indiana, as far as I know. And we did not connect the term only with so-called hillbillies but with anyone from down in the country, altho the down-state Ozarks were hills, indeed. Actually the term was often expanded to "those flat-river hoosiers. " Where Flat River was I did not know.The funniest thing I recollect was that the man who lived across the alley, an immigrant with a German accent, who was a chef downtown, would speak of the dishwashers and other menials as "dose tamn hoosiers." In other words, he picked up the lingo and the meaning pretty quickly ! I wonder what they called him ! Oh, for political correctness !!
Mom

Rosemary picked up the term while she was at school in St. Louis, too.