Senate run the following year, Springer referenced a quote by then National Review commentator Jonah Goldberg, who warned of new people brought to the polls by Springer, including “slack-jawed yokels, hicks, weirdos, pervs and whatnots.”

And yet, this media myth persists that it's all just an act to win over the "base" of uneducated yokels.

They find it hard to fathom why anyone would want to live in a place that films, TV shows and other media have taught them is a cesspool populated only by slack-jawed yokels.

Nan came up with Relocation Rule Number 14: Blend in with the locals or stick out with the yokels.

The only yokels in the hearing room were on the dais.