However, it seems to have acquired a more negative connotation for hangers-on and Hamptons wannabees who call the Hamptons home but are more transient, particularly in the summer. It’s a term typically used to describe people out here who are all-knowing in the fashion, media and financial worlds (fashionistas, anyone?). There is a relatively recent type of resident known as Hamptonistas. (Hampton Bayers? Hampton Baysites? Montaukers or Montaukians? Quogueites? Quoguers? But that’s a subject for another article.) Not sure what people from Quogue, Montauk and Hampton Bays are called. Also, there are Westhamptoners, but no Westhamptonites. I did find some references to Southamptoners on the web, though. If you head further east to East Hampton, the locals typically are called East Hamptoners. Perhaps the Great Recession had something to do with scaling back our perception of ourselves and what we call ourselves. So, back then we were Hamptonians, but now we’re Hamptonites. But they eventually dropped “Hamptonian” from its name, and focused on the rest of Long Island, in addition to the Hamptons. In addition, I recall another local publication, The Improper Hamptonian, which was launched in the spring of 2001, covering Hamptons lifestyles and events. My friend Edward Callaghan mentioned there was a local magazine a few years back called The Hamptonian, which was distributed on the Hampton Jitney. I don’t think, though, we’ll be seeing any references to summering in Soton in the near future. Quote: “The derivation of Soton and Sotonian has a rather more mundane origin as both were coined to describe the city and its residents by journalists at The Daily Echo, who found Southampton and Southamptonian far too long to fit easily into the newspaper’s headlines.” Reminds me of the “All the News That Fits” takeoff of The New York Times byline. a couple years ago, “Sotonian” was the term used for Southamptonians years ago because they couldn’t fit the longer word in the newspapers, so they used the shorter Sotonian, and used “Soton” for Southampton. According to an article written by Keith Hamilton in The Southern Daily Echo in the U.K. This caused me to ponder what we really should be called out here, because about a year ago, I was in the U.K., and noticed that people in Southampton, England are referred to as Southamptonians. There have been numerous articles in Dan’s Papers referring to the locals as Hamptonites.
Recently, I’ve read various newspaper accounts of life in the Hamptons, and of the “Hamptonites” who inhabit the Hamptons.
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