Sentences with phrase «ignorant yokels»

Jon Huntsman ran against his own party on the idea that the GOP base was a bunch of angry and ignorant yokels.

Pawlenty's strategy was pandering to party's base on the idea that they were a bunch of angry and ignorant yokels.

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(p. 5) Tyack & Cuban: «In the firm belief that they were the trustees of the public interest, superintendents and other policy elites of the first half of the century tended to dismiss their opponents as ignorant or self - interested... They regarded the rural foes of school consolidation as backward yokels who did not know what was good for their children.»