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California, gold-hunters;
Colorado, rovers;
Connecticut, wooden nutmegs;
Dakota, squatters;
Delaware, muskrats;
Florida, fly-up-the-creeks;
Georgia, buzzards;
Idaho, fortune seekers;
Illinois, suckers;
Indiana, hoosiers;
Iowa, hawkeyes;
Kansas, jayhawkers;
Kentucky, corn-crackers;
Louisiana, creoles;
Maine, foxes;
Maryland, clam-humpers;
Ma.s.sachusetts, Yankees;
Michigan, wolverines;
Minnesota, gophers;
Mississippi, tadpoles;
Missouri, pukes;
Nebraska, bugeaters;
Nevada, sagehens;
New Hamps.h.i.+re, granite boys;
New Jersey, blues or clam-catchers;
New Mexico, Spanish Indians;
New York, Knickerbockers;
North Carolina, tarheels;
Ohio, buckeyes;
Oregon, hard cases;
Pennsylvania, pennamites, or leather-heads;
Rhode Island, gun flints;
South Carolina, weazles;
Tennessee, whelps;
Texas, beef-heads;
Utah, polygamists;
Vermont, Green Mountain boys;
Virginia, beagles;
Wisconsin, badgers.
Nicknames of Cities.
Atlanta, Gate City of the South;
Baltimore, Monumental City;
Bangor, Lumber City;
Boston, Modern Athens, Literary Emporium, City of Notions and Hub of the Universe;
Brooklyn, City of Churches;
Buffalo, Queen of the Lakes;
Burlington (Iowa), Orchard City;
Charleston, Palmetto City;
Chicago, Prairie, or Garden City;
