From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!rjs
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: Re: Etymology of "hoosier"
Article-I.D.: floyd.285
Posted: Fri Jun 18 12:16:03 1982
Received: Tue Jun 22 01:50:13 1982
References: ihps3.271

The way I understand it, the term "hoosier" comes from the phrase

"Hey kid, who's yer father?"