The term coastie or coasty (more often heard and seen as the plural coasties) is a pejorative term used in Midwestern U.S. universities (especially the University of Wisconsin-Madison[1]) to denote students who come from outside the region, mainly from the East or West coast.
[3] Coasties are often confused with FIBs (Fucking Illinois Bastards),[4] students from the north shore suburbs of Chicago.
One is that coasties do not pay their own tuition because they come from socioeconomically privileged, and often Jewish families.
Other associations include living in private residence halls and membership in a fraternity or a sorority.
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