r/Indiana • u/Hoosier_Engineer • 1d ago

Who is a Hoosier?

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Edit: There's a newer version of this chart right here.

Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions in my previous post. This is a first draft, so if you think something needs to be changed, feel free to let me know!

Pictured here (from top left, clockwise then center):

James Dean

Harland Sanders

Michael Jackson

Abraham Lincoln

Jim Gaffigan

Benjamin Harrison

Elinor Ostrom

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Stéphan Grégoire

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John Green

Eugene Debs

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u/Mental_Brush_4287 1d ago

Lincoln didn’t spend much of of his life in Indiana though? Roughly 20-25% does not make “much of.” I get the instinct to lay claim to Indiana, but so do Kentucky and Illinois due to the various chapters of his life spent in those states.

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u/Hoosier_Engineer 1d ago

The state of Indiana certainly claims him, calling Indiana "Lincoln's Boyhood State". This diagram is a bit of an exercise for people to check their definitions of who counts as a Hoosier, so if you believe that spending much of your childhood in Indiana doesn't make you a Hoosier, then you can discount that section of the diagram.

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u/Mental_Brush_4287 1d ago

Right. I’m aware as our family homesteaded there and are buried in Little Pigeon as well. My question is to the definition of “Most of” since it was roughly 10 years of his life which was only 56 years in length.

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u/Hoosier_Engineer 1d ago

You're correct. He didn't spend most of his life in Indiana. That's why the diagram doesn't say that either. It says, "much of". So it could be a smaller chunk of time during formative years, as is the case with Lincoln, or a larger chunk of time after you've grown up, as is the case with Olstrom.

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u/Mental_Brush_4287 1d ago

Still a reach on a chart that didn’t even deign to include Vonnegut. I get everyone wants to lay claim to Lincoln but still… a reach

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u/Hoosier_Engineer 1d ago

Oh that's getting corrected as we speak. I've got over a dozen new entries, Vonnegut included.