Nope, Mark, here in Missouri Hoosier has a completely different meaning than the same word in Indiana.

Here, Hoosier is what WE call someone that's called a "redneck" elsewhere. We call a trailer with rusting cars and pickup trucks a Hoosier Nest.

Why we even take a certain amount of pride in being called redneck or white trash, to us here in the "show me" state, both catagories are a cut ABOVE a Hoosier. When someone "acks ignernt" in public, we call THAT actin' Hoosiery.

CB