Oklahoma migrants, in particular, descended from rural Southerners earlier in the century, contributed greatly to the transplanting of country music to California.

Carter's boyhood story goes a long way toward explaining the seeming paradox of a white, rural Southerner's liberalism on race.

It inspires urban Northerners to seek out the music of rural Southerners.

Oklahoma migrants, in particular, were descended from rural Southerners and transplanted country music to California.

He praises the Tennessee Valley Authority for bringing electrical power and jobs to rural Southerners.

I share the values that rural Southerners share; faith, family, integrity.

If you are a rural Southerner over 40, there's a 65 percent chance you were delivered by a midwife.

In her singing engagements, she performed dressed as a sophisticated urbanite while talking like a rural Southerner.

The kayfabe (storyline) family used the gimmick of unintelligent rural Southerners and performed square dances in the ring.

The music, composed by black, rural Southerners, may be savored in two shows at the Triplex Theater this weekend.