hayseed

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The Nonconformist was firmly in the populists’ corner, but 150 miles to the north, Kansas’s leading Republican newspaper derided the reformers as a gang of disgruntled hayseeds.

From Washington Post

Child grew up in Pasadena, California—in one of the book’s interviews, a 1989 conversation with the journalist Polly Frost, for Interview, she describes herself as “an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.”

From The New Yorker

His prediction that “everyone’s going to make us look like a bunch of hayseed rednecks” was right.

From The Guardian

A New York real estate tycoon playing the hayseed.

From Seattle Times

In the seventh episode of the podcast, airing June 27, 2014, Longworth started a series called "The Many Loves of Howard Hughes," where she describes Hughes' transformation from "a big-spending hayseed to Hollywood big shot."

From Los Angeles Times