Yokel

They are also depicted as talking about bucolic topics like cows, sheep, goats, wheat, alfalfa, fields, crops, and tractors to the exclusion of all else.

Synonyms for yokel include bubba, country bumpkin, hayseed, chawbacon, rube, redneck, hillbilly and hick.

According to a popular etymology, hick derives from the nickname "Old Hickory" for Andrew Jackson, one of the first presidents of the United States to come from rural hard-scrabble roots.

The term was generalized over time to include people who lived in rural areas and were not considered as sophisticated as their urban counterparts.

In "The Redneck Manifesto," Jim Goad argues that this stereotype has largely served to blind the general population to the economic exploitation of rural areas, specifically in Appalachia, the South, and parts of the Midwest.