Why do you call California Cali?

Question

I'm just wondering, I'm from California and I have never heard someone from there call it "Cali"

that's funny you would think if that was the shorten version Californiana would use it

Answer 1

Only outsiders call it "Cali", just like only outsiders dare call it "Frisco".
Do as I do and subtract IQ points when they do...

Answer 2

When I moved to the Midwest after living in California for a number of years and heard people ask me, "Oh, so you're from Cali?", I thought they meant the city in Colombia (the famous one associated with the drug cartel).

Answer 3

I'm from there and never heard anyone there say Cali either. I guess it's just shorter.

Answer 4

It's short for California and the term grew in popularity after the song my LL Cool J "Going back to Cali"

Answer 5

I am a native and have never heard that term.. I can remember when San Francisco was referred to as The City..

Answer 6

I've lived her all my life and only in the last year have I heard people use it, but mostly in an email name because the full name is too long.

Answer 7

Well actually the term came from Tu pac in his song Cali love, it has stuck ever since

Answer 8

bc its a shorter way, its better then sayin california. but i say either way all my life iv lived in cali nd iv called it either one .. it doesnt really mattter. like los angeles its LA .

Answer 9

I anly have heard that from out of staters. I have recently been seeing it on signs and stuff like that.

Answer 10

I'm from SoCal (Southern California) and a lot of us here call it Cali as a nickname. Here, we call LA "The City", Sacramento "Sac Town", San Francisco "San Fran", San Diego "Daygo",