Sentences with phrase «backwoods hayseed»

«It was obvious, from the start, that the DoJ attorneys viewed state officials and the legislative majority and their staffs as a bunch of backwoods hayseed bigots who bemoan the abolition of the poll tax and pine for the days of literacy tests and lynchings,» Smith wrote.

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This is a film not about an icon of history, but about a president who was scorned by some of his political opponents as just a hayseed from the backwoods.