That is hilarious. I live in New Zealand now, and I've actually met at least two people who know acquaintances of mine from back home, and one person who even spent a part of their childhood about a half hour's drive away from my (very rural!) childhood home, though their family moved down here a few years before I was born.

So, two things to know about Indiana: one, our demonym is "Hoosier." No, we don't know what it means. And two, our list of local heroes includes sci-fi author Kurt Vonnegut. In his fourth book, he wrote, "I don't know what it is about Hoosiers. But wherever you go there is always a Hoosier doing something very important there."

I don't know about "important," but apparently we're pretty memorable.

My mother and I were driving through Texas on the way to Tennessee to visit some friends. Stopped in a random restaurant just off the highway (not an Interstate highway, just a State highway). One of her coworkers was at another table. We are not from Texas, or even New Mexico. That restaurant in the middle was not on a major Interstate corridor and was multiple states away from home, and still somehow we ended up there at the same time.