GETTING RURAL AMERICA BACK ON ITS FEET

摘要

AMERICAN LIFE HAS ALWAYS BEEN CHARACTERIZED BY DISTINCT differences between city and country-this has provided rich material for generations of comedy routines, from vaudeville gags about naive hayseeds and shady city slickers to the 1960s sitcoms The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres to the reality TV adventures of Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie in The Simple Life.