Hayseeds say "where's your Cadillac"?!

[chronodeco]

This is a true story that happened to my wife yesterday. We live in a small town in Northern central Oregon where, on sunny days, the hayseeds come into town (a migration of sorts). My wife who is a Realtor was showing a house to a prospective buyer and when she drove up in her 300SL, the male hayseed said "when are you going to get a Cadillac? I thought all successful people drove Cadillacs".
Now some of you may not believe this but for those who live in rural USA know what I'm talking about.
I always thought that someone should redo the song "Lineman for the County" to "Hayseed from the County". There's a lot of potential here.
Here is the Google Thesaurus synonyms for hayseed - pretty much sums it up for me:
Commonalty.
Noun: commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people, mass of society,; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders; vulgar herd, common herd; rank and file, hoc genus omne; the many, the general,the crowd, the people, the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry; king Mob; proletariat; fruges consumere nati, demos, hoi polloi, great unwashed; man in the street. mob; rabble, rabble rout; chaff, rout, horde, canaille; scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society; swinish multitude, foex populi; trash; profanum vulgus, ignobile vulgus; vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail; small fry. commoner, one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican, proletary, proletaire, roturier, Mr. Snooks, bourgeois, epicier, Philistine, cockney; grisette, demimonde. peasant, countryman, boor, carle, churl; villain, villein; terroe filius; serf, kern, tyke, tike, chuff, ryot, fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy; rustic, hayseed*, lunkhead [U. S.], chaw-bacon*, tiller of the soil; hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin, looby, rube* [U. S.], lout, underling; gamin; rough; pot-wallopper, slubberdegullion|; vulgar fellow, low fellow; cad, curmudgeon. upstart, parvenu, skipjack; nobody, nobody one knows; hesterni quirites, pessoribus orti; bourgeois gentilhomme, novus homo, snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer; man of straw. beggar, gaberlunzie, muckworm, mudlark, sans culotte, raff, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian, panhandler*, sundowner, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench, scrub, jade; gossoon. Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo; unlicked cub, rough diamond. barbarousness, barbarism; boeotia.

[CDNC36AMG]

I saw my first Cadillac XLR in person a couple of days ago.

Truthfully, I found it to be quite ugly....and I always wanted an Allante.

[DavidSoine]

Looks to me like the hayseed was particularly successfull in the time honored country tradition of irritating city-folk.

My grandpa always said Mersed'eze.



Best,

Dave
87 560sl

[G-Benz]

"Hayseeds" as you refer also have little knowledge of many of the nuances of metropolitan life. Much of what they know is gleaned from severe stereotypical lore available from their local media (newspaper, TV, etc.)...similar in kind to how many of us assume we know "redneck" culture.

My wife is from a "hayseed" town, and the sight of a MB is quite rare! This is logical , in that import repair facilities are just as rare, so domestic vehicles are about all you see. So as luxury goes, the Cadillac would be the marque to own in that neck of the woods.

Trying to explain to folks what we do for a living is a fruitless task, as the locals can only identify with basic careers such as lawyer, doctor, etc. "Technical Writer" or "Programmer Analyst" means nothing!