Different sort here to be sure, not so much metro , but when you'ns get bout fort or fift mile outside of metro....
Well, have you ever seen Josey Wales? Remember Granny on the store porch w the corn cob pipe, yeah, that's not too many generations removed from present.
That said , it's just a culture, and people in mizzou rah , I'd rather be around than people in Missouri , there is a definite divide. Rural are much more real and down to earth, good folk they are, and we all have our own cultural idiosyncrasies .