Instead, once in the city they experience - and resent - downward mobility, often because of a stigmatization (as country bumpkins) over which they have no control.
Boys, but not girls, can use hi with impunity, even when doing so can invoke a negative stereotype, the country bumpkin.
On the other hand, those who cheat country bumpkins and scare good people, in order to swindle money out of them, are nothing more than litigation hooligans.
The basis of his argument is that we in the county are simple country bumpkins who do not understand these problems.
These land workers are not the country bumpkins imagined by town dwellers.
We are not just a lot of bumpkins.
The people involved are not bumpkins who do not know what is going on.
In exasperation, the sergeant places the country bumpkin on full-time latrine duty.