I grew up on acreage with an assortment of farm animals and fiddling with old tractors and farm trucks so I may resemble that remark. I am more comfortable and in general respect country folk more than city people who think that they are smarter than those who can actually do for themselves.
My wife is a military historian and belongs to groups that drive old military vehicles in parades, etc... One of her acquaintances who is a nice guy, an actual veteran in his 50s and seems to be an expert on everything was complaining to her about how he got ripped off on a WWII ambulance that he was trying to start and told her it always ran like crap until it warmed up. He was turning it over while he had his son spray a contiuous stream of starting fluid into it. She asked him why he wasn't using the choke. He replied, “What is a choke?”
“What is a choke?”...ROFL...Evidently, he’d never driven anything old or any farm equipment...The back edge of my mom and dad’s farm was the border of the Great Smoky Mtns Nat’l Park...I know just what you mean about the comfort of country people....