I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.
Let me get a big 'hell yeah' from the redneck girls like me, hell yeah.
We all got a hillbilly bone down deep inside.
I am a country boy and proud of it.
I don't speak fluent bumpkin.
I think when a lot of people hear the term 'country,' they step off from it.
Urbanites may picture farmers as hip heritage-pig breeders returning to the land, or a struggling rural underclass waging a doomed battle to hang on to their patrimony as agribusiness moves in. But these stereotypes are misleading.
I'm country to the bone.
I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.
It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
You got to do more than just live in the country to be a Farmer.
[Rural voters] have a different view of the world than people do in these urban centers.
There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, "This is what represents me." So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization.
I'm a real big country boy.
I love my country. I love my guns. I love my family. I love the way it is now, and anybody that tries to change it has to come through me. That should be all of our attitudes. Cause this is America, and a country boy is good enough for me, son.
I was always told that Hoosier came from when settlers in the state, when a stranger came on their property they'd say, "Who's there? Who's there?" So people that were from Indiana were the people that said "Who's there?" But what do I know? I don't read or interact with people outside the Internet.
Before I begin, let me say right here and now that I'm a country boy. And, man, I mean the real backwoods! That's at the start of the start of the thing, and that's at the heart of the thing.
People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.
The fact that I have a Southern accent and write about a lot of rural things leads people to put me in the country category.
I am from the countryside, very rural countryside, and I moved to Tokyo when I was 18 and have been living first-ever since. So yes, I am a city guy, but sometimes I sort of feel there's another me in a parallel world, still in the countryside.
I'm always the most country person in the room.
Because we lived only a mile outside the town of Mayfield, I was acutely conscious of being country. I felt inferior to people in town because we had to grow our food and make our clothes.
I grew up in Kilmichael, Mississippi. It's a dot on the map 100 miles north of Jackson.
Writers who aren't from rural states in the Midwest or the West often treat such people as if they were the Waltons or the Beverly Hillbillies.
An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a very wavy line on the blue above.
