The dumb country bumpkin trope was only real during the New England culture war. The New England cities kept the snobbery even as the populace descended into worse shitholes than the rural areas.
You'd be surprised. I just moved from one rural parish o another and went from my farmers having masters degrees to my farmers being proud of being uneducated.
Around here, you pretty much need agricultural courses to be more than just a picker, and you're supposed to have tickets for doing that, too (but I wonder how all the "temporary" foreign workers get theirs ... bet they don't need their own car, either.)
The dumb country bumpkin trope was only real during the New England culture war. The New England cities kept the snobbery even as the populace descended into worse shitholes than the rural areas.
You'd be surprised. I just moved from one rural parish o another and went from my farmers having masters degrees to my farmers being proud of being uneducated.
Yeah a college degree is not a measurement of intelligence.
It's a measurement of how well you can memorize shit and regurgitate it on command.
Around here, you pretty much need agricultural courses to be more than just a picker, and you're supposed to have tickets for doing that, too (but I wonder how all the "temporary" foreign workers get theirs ... bet they don't need their own car, either.)