We’re trying to make it work.’ Poor people are not stupid. We’re not illiterate country bumpkins struggling to figure out how to work a computer. We’re the nurse that lives down the street ...

Pentecostals had been dismissed as country bumpkins, vulgar, lower-class whites who talked in tongues while getting "slain in the spirit." But the Paulks were different. The bishop preached a ...

These funny motivational quotes about life can help inspire you to achieve your goals while also putting a smile on your face ...

O’Connor knew she was writing for people who no longer believed in God, grace or the devil, and she longed to awaken them.

You owe them an apology. To call you a country bumpkin would be an insult to country bumpkins. You insult my intelligence and the intelligence of the writers of our founding documents. I’m sure ...

“We’d joke that we were country bumpkins—we were both from places where people gave directions like ‘turn left at the stump,’” Vaughn recalls. “We came from single-parent ...

It was like ‘Wayne’s World’ or ‘Beavis and Butthead.’ They made fun of videos as these country bumpkins and it got syndicated. Sonny was always doing things. He wrote a song called ...

When CETFA started in 2012, the ETF industry “didn’t have a voice and no one wanted to hear from us. … We were just little country bumpkins,” Dunwoody joked in an interview. “No one cared about the ...

he asked, clearly irritated. “After all, they’re a big city, we’re just a bunch of country bumpkins down here.” Then, he mentioned the possibility of power companies taking land ...

Birds are everywhere and the more we strive to know about them, the more curious we become about the natural world around us, ...

"I think the biggest concerns are that people elsewhere forget about us and they think, 'Oh they're just the conservative state, and they're all country bumpkins. Don't worry it will never happen ...

The price of the water filtration plant Portland is aiming to build has gone up. Again. The plant was first proposed in 2017 at a cost of $500 million. In 2019, it went up to $1.4 billion.