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> Dallasites Is that seriously the demonym? Terrible. Try harder, Dallasites.
by semiquaver 3mo ago
> Dallasites
Is that seriously the demonym? Terrible. Try harder, Dallasites.
- chasd00 3mo agobetter than "cityofhate" which is what we're called most of the time.
- triceratops 3mo agoUnderstandable, I'd also hate to live in Dallas /s
- behnamoh 3mo agoIn all fairness, I've noticed people here in Dallas/TX are indeed more racist than the East and West coast cities, esp. towards brown people.
- mchusma 3mo agoI thought it was a typo, or strange url at first.
- gryfft 3mo agoDallasians? Dallasers? Dallaslets? Dallards?
- CalRobert 3mo agoDalwegians?
- JacobAsmuth 3mo agoDallonians
- dyauspitr 3mo agoDallamites, Dallsatians
- stronglikedan 3mo agoDallazens
- Falimonda 3mo agoDallasonians
- seizethecheese 3mo agoTexas -> Texan Kansas - Kansan Honduras -> Honduran It should be Dallan?
- ndm000 3mo agoHaving grown up in Dallas, I usually just say "Texan" and call it a day.
- bijowo1676 3mo agoI like North Texans
- dgunay 3mo agoIt sounds too much like "parasite" for me to be comfortable using it. I'm assuming some random person made it up. It's okay to just say "people of/from <place>", guys.
- raddan 3mo agoBut then you lose extra important information from words like "masshole."
- gumby271 3mo agoDallmatians
- adrianmonk 3mo agoWhat's your better suggestion? Dallasonian? Dallaser? Dallasan? Also, do you have the same issue with the demonyms Manhattanite or Seattleite?
- v64 3mo agoI live here and use Dallasian myself
- phinnaeus 3mo agoSeattleite is fine, it is close to satellite
- rawgabbit 3mo agoIf I had my wish, the original French hippie colony would have been successful and we would be calling ourselves Reunionais or something like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Réunion_(Dallas) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Réunion_(Dallas)
- behnamoh 3mo agoI'm with you on this and this is something I brought up on Dallas subreddits before moving here and got downvoted to oblivion. "Dallasite" sounds like "parasite". Dallasian/etc. would be better.
- rawgabbit 3mo agoWe go by North Texans.
- nosrepa 3mo agoI vote for dilly dallasers.