Go Vote Hoosiers And Heels!

[BlooInBloo]

This is America - do your job and go fucking vote!

[Voltaire]

1. Done in Indiana

Hope I picked a winner this time.

[BlooInBloo]

3. Oh - I'm late. I fail. Guess that's why I'm not in charge of GOTV ops for anyone. :(

[mcctatas]

2. I should probably just google it,

but wtf is a hoosier anyway? Or a tarheel for that matter....

[BlooInBloo]

4. Look up Hoya while you're there - lol! I did at one point - and a couple of them...

... actually don't mean anything. Forget which ones tho.

[DAGDA56]

5. People in Indiana=Hoosiers, people in North Carolina=Tar Heels...

...don't ask about Boilermakers or Demon Decons, as it just gets more complicated.

[DMorgan]

6. Yes, but WHY are they called these strange names?

[DAGDA56]

10. College sports teams...although Hoosier probably pre-dates Indiana University...you have to ask

a UNC grad about tarheels. I'm a 'gator, myself.

[mcctatas]

13. and of course, there is no easy answer on hoosier...

We know where Hoosiers come from: Indiana. But where does the name Hoosier come from? That is less easy to answer. The origins of Hoosier are rather obscure, but the most likely possibility is that the term is an alteration of hoozer, an English dialect word recorded in Cumberland, a former county of northwest England, in the late 19th century and used to refer to anything unusually large. The transition between hoozer and Hoosier is not clear. The first recorded instance of Hoosier meaning “Indiana resident” is dated 1826; however, it seems possible that senses of the word recorded later in the Dictionary of Americanisms, including “a big, burly, uncouth specimen or individual; a frontiersman, countryman, rustic,” reflect the kind of use this word had before it settled down in Indiana. http://www.answers.com/topic/hoosier

or tarheel
History of term
Front page of the first issue of The Tar Heel, which was later renamed The Daily Tar Heel.In its early years as a colony, North Carolina settlements became an important source of the naval stores tar, pitch, and turpentine especially for the English navy. At one time, an estimated 100,000 barrels of tar and pitch were shipped annually to England.<1> From about 1720 to 1870, Historians Hugh Lefler and Albert Newsome claim in North Carolina: the History of a Southern State (3rd edition, 1973) that North Carolina led the world in production of naval stores.<2> Tar and pitch were largely used to paint the bottom of wooden British ships in order to both seal the ship and to prevent shipworm from damaging the hull.<3>

At the time, tar was created by piling up pine logs and burning them until hot oil seeped out from a canal. The vast production of tar from North Carolina led many, including Walt Whitman, to give the derisive nickname of "Tarboilers" to the residents of North Carolina.<1> North Carolina was nicknamed the "Tar and Turpentine State" because of this industry.<1>

Somehow, these terms evolved until the nickname Tar Heel was used to refer to residents of North Carolina and gained prominence during the American Civil War. During this time, the nickname Tar Heel was a pejorative, similar to how the nickname white trash is used today, but starting around 1865, the term began to be used as a source of pride.<1>

http://www.answers.com/topic/tar-heel

[mcctatas]

8. Well I knew that much...

but what is a hoosier??? a tarheel??? At least in WI, I know wtf a badger is (a packer took some investigating)

[swishyfeet]

11. It's fucking elitist that's what

In Oregon we keep it real. Ducks, Beavers.

(things that like rain)

:)

[dipsydoodle]

7. Is that the same as

Hooters 'n heels ? :shrug:

[BlooInBloo]

9. i WISH!!!

[mcctatas]

12. That's a great picture of hillary!

;)

[otohara]

14. Make It Stop

vote Obama!