southwesterner

[ south-wes-ter-ner ]

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of the southwest.
2. (initial capital letter) a native or inhabitant of the southwestern U.S.

Word History and Origins

Origin of southwesterner¹

1855–60, Americanism; southwestern + -er ¹

Example Sentences

“Garner wasn’t a full-on Southerner, he was a Southwesterner,” Post said.

From Los Angeles Times

The sandblasted, sometimes off-kilter Southwesterner and the sardonic Boston brahmin have the chummy rapport of old friends, which they are.

From Wall Street Journal

Not a single Southwesterner, nor a genuine Westerner, not even a Protestant.

From Wall Street Journal

After noting that all nine justices attended Harvard or Yale law schools and that only one grew up in the Midwest, he wrote: “Not a single Southwesterner or even, to tell the truth, a genuine Westerner.”

From Time

If only he had first arrived in New York in the restful quiet of a Sunday, so the young Southwesterner found himself thinking, perhaps the metropolis might not have seemed to him so overwhelming.

From Project Gutenberg