The Dark and Bloody Ground = Kentucky: also supra; Diamond State = Delaware: also supra; Empire State = New York: also infra: people = Knickerbockers; Empire State of the South = Georgia: people = Crackers; Excelsior State = New York: also supra; Freestone State = Connecticut: also supra and infra; Garden State = Kansas: also infra; Golden State = California: also supra; Gopher State = Minnesota; Granite State = New Hampshire; Green Mountain State = Vermont; Gulf State = Florida: also infra; Hawkeye State = Iowa: people = Hawkeyes; Hoosier State = Indiana: people = Hoosiers; Keystone State = Pennsylvania; Lake State = Michigan: people = Wolverines; Land of Steady Habits = Connecticut: also supra; Little Rhody = Rhode Island; Lone Star State = Texas: people = Beefheads; Lumber State = Maine; also infra; Mother of Presidents (or States) = Virginia: also infra; Mudcat State = Mississippi: also supra; New England of the West = Minnesota: also supra; Old Colony = Massachusetts: also supra; Old Dominion = Virginia: also supra; Old Line State = Maryland; Old North State = North Carolina: also infra; Palmetto State = South Carolina; Pan Handle State = West Virginia; Pelican State = Louisiana: also supra; Peninsular State = Florida: also supra; Pine Tree State = Maine: also supra; Prairie State = Illinois: also infra; Sage-hen State (or Silver State) = Nevada; Squatter State = Kansas: also supra; Sucker State = Illinois: also supra; Turpentine State = North Carolina: people = Tarheels: also supra; Web-FOOT State = Oregon; Wolverine State = Michigan: people = Wolverines; Wooden Nutmeg State = Connecticut: also supra.
1835. Hoffman, Winter in the West, 210. There was a long-haired hoosier from Indiana, a couple of smart-looking suckers from Illinois, a keen-eyed, leather-belted badger from Wisconsin: and who could refuse to drink with such a company?
18[?]. Am. Congress, 'Am. Rejected Addresses.' Broad Indiana's hoosier sons her fame must needs keep good.
1848. New York Herald, 13 June. Thank God, in my own State, in the Bullion State, they did not succeed in depreciating our majority.
1849. Whittier, Voices of Freedom. What means the Old Dominion? Hath she forgot the day, When o'er her conquered valleys swept the Briton's steel array? Ibid. Lift again the stately emblem on the Bay State's rusted shield, Give to Northern winds the pine-tree on our banner's tattered field!
1850. Allin, Yankee Ballads. The Empire State is your New York; I grant it hard to mate her; Yet still give me the Nutmeg State, Where shall we find a greater?
1856. Stowe, Dred., i. 152. I was amused enough, said Nina, with Old Hundred's indignation at having got out the carriage and horses to go over to what he called a Cracker funeral.
1859. Bartlett, Americanisms, s.v. Bear State. I once asked a Western man if Arkansas abounded in bears, that it should be designated as the "Bear State." Yes, said he, it does; for I never knew a man from that State but he was a bar, and in fact the people are all barish to a degree.
1861. Charleston Mercury, 'War Song.' March, march on, brave Palmetto Boys, Sumter and Lafayette, forward in order.
1861. Delaware Inquirer, 5 May Delaware's honor is in your hands . . . Blue Hen's Chickens to the front! Forward! March!
