Equally, country folk have been called bumpkins, even pumpkins and sheep-shaggers, amongst other names.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 4] Reference

"And the implication is, you know, we're kind of bumpkins," Mr. Pawlenty said.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page]

Those bumpkins are the people running the nation today.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Progressives Can Take Back the Nation] Reference

We bumpkins sat as far as possible from the Oval Office.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Power Breakfasts] Reference

"Eleanor has shunted those objectionable bumpkins after all.".    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

Unlike other country bumpkins, this one was a natural cosmonaut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remember Me to the Motherland] Reference

It was best he do so; he needed these bumpkins ye t awhile longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wizard and Glass]

  Unlike other country bumpkins, this one was a natural cosmonaut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remember Me to the Motherland] Reference

Oh I forgot, the poor disenfranchised bumpkins all work on Saturdays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Wins Wyoming, Networks Say] Reference

'Most of these bumpkins wouldn't know Houdini from Siegfried and Roy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Violets Are Blue]

Other country bumpkins he knows and he talks like I know these people.    From Wordnik.com.  [badger Diary Entry] Reference

Just another bunch of “southern country bumpkins” like in Arkansas?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central Sunday Roundup] Reference

We hear things, you know, even us dim country bumpkins, we hear things. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whip Hand]

In fact, townies often grow better outdoor peaches than us country bumpkins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's peach recipes] Reference

"" Hong Kong Chinese still think the Chinese are the stupidest bumpkins on earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Built To Last] Reference

It was always one of those (EXPLETIVE DELETED) country bumpkins saying I want a ride.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2006] Reference

The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and boobies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

When she did think of them, it was as backwoods bumpkins in a distant, backward kingdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rulers of the Darkness]

But I will ask that you don't write anything that makes us look like a bunch of bumpkins.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Taste of Coins from Treasure Troves] Reference

'He has come to look for work, he says, but I told him we wanted no country bumpkins here.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

I didn't have to wait in a long line of country bumpkins and rednecks (oops, did I say that!?).    From Wordnik.com.  [nightnurse Diary Entry] Reference

Only stumpwater witches and country bumpkins still believed types of power were "good" or "bad.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Nemesis]

He thinks we're a trio of snotnoses; that we see him and everyone else here as country bumpkins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wizard and Glass]

But then again, those mainlanders are nothing more than cheats and country bumpkins, aren't they?.    From Wordnik.com.  [jaimewolf Diary Entry] Reference

Now there isn't one of them country bumpkins, miss, as would know whether you had an accent or not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molly Bawn] Reference

The bumpkins all stared, and Nancy began to awake and find out that a sailor knew how to cut a caper.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

"I don't want to be overrun by children any more than I want to be overrun by bumpkins," I said reasonably.    From Wordnik.com.  [Question Quest]

If, during our chatter, some topic came up from schooling, the village children simply seemed like bumpkins to us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orphans of Chaos] Reference

Ye gods, Caesar, his public entertainments are going to keep the bumpkins in town for closer to three months than two!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

Suddenly he very much didn't want his new friend to lump him in with the boors and country bumpkins that surrounded them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outstretched Shadow] Reference

You remember when the main characters get lost in the Pine Barrens and battle it out with deer and peculiar country bumpkins?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christine A. Scheller: Leaving the Circus for the Jersey Shore and Finding a More Nourishing Faith] Reference

KJF has some other words that can be used: yahoos, country bumpkins, I'm sure there are other words that don't insult poor people.    From Wordnik.com.  [tracy enid flick] Reference

I don't refer to the bumpkins with whom you played when a boy, and who, now that you have outgrown them, look enviously askance at you.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference