folksiness

His campaign featured a combination of cracker-barrel folksiness and blatant racial supremacy, and most Windrip supporters are just fine with his seizure of power: "Never in American history," Lewis writes, "had the adherents of a President been so well satisfied…with such annoyances as Congressional Investigations hushed, the official warders of contracts were on the merriest of terms with all contractors."

In 2008, John McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who entranced the GOP elites with her good looks and her plain-spoken, rural folksiness, seemed to be their dream come true.

With his white beard, wire-rim eyeglasses, newsie cap and bolo tie, Mr. Moore, who died last week at age 94, was an unlikely style icon whose folksiness seemed to personify the wholesome artisanal grains produced by his company at an old mill in Milwaukie, Ore.

Modern pop diva-dom requires a careful balance of queenliness and folksiness, but nobody has perfected that balance like Carey — all the more impressive given that she started out long before social media codified so much of how we think about a celebrity’s relatability.

Sykes has attempted to play up his folksiness, referring to himself as “just a country lawyer” multiple times to the jury.