During the seventies his paintings dealt primarily with small-town folk.

It was mighty late for small-town folks to be up.

Even small-town folks were used to being part of a bigger world than you can reach in a day's walk.

But here was a book saying that small-town folk were mostly ignorant bigots, the small town itself a trap few could escape.

"Some say-you know how these ignorant, small-town folk can be-that one of your patients might have come to town and attacked Ingram."

A reminder what small-town folks are like.

The members of the alliance's board are similarly miscast in their self-assigned roles as small-town folk fighting corporate greed.

How could the Simpson family from Springfield remain the down-to-earth, unspoiled small-town folks they once were?

Both feel estranged from the small-town folks around them.

They're the best folks on earth, those small-town folks, but, oh, mama!