[Oh, blow it out your a**, you dumb hick.]
Given his descent from a family of merchants, I’d say Manchin is the opposite of a hick. In fact, Manchin is posing as a hick running against the big city slicker Yankee from the Northeast. Unfortunately, his deceptive campaign has him ahead in the polls. Would it have killed Morrissey to have taken up hunting in the last year or so? Or started frequenting gun ranges to shoot the breeze with the locals?
I apologize for using the word “hick”. He just makes me so angry that I resort to stupid insults. So, you’re saying a Yankee outsider is running against him while refusing to get involved in southern culture? (Forgive me, I don’t know much about this match up.)