Years ago, on an episode of “COPS,” they were with the Kansas City Police Department. In the squad room, the sergeant was getting on the patrol officers. Apparently, the brass was getting complaints that the street officers were being disrepectful of the citizens they were encountering. The sergeant said something like “So stop calling people bums, trash, n*****s and Hoosiers.”
Apparently we brought a reputation with us when we migrated to the area.
Everybody seems to like to look down on somebody. Most of my Indiana relatives looked down on “Kentuckians” who seemed to be anyone who had migrated from the South to work in the auto plants.