“....stop voting for these people because they have a country twang, ....”
Jay Rockefeller always did this in WV. He’d make his election year visits to Charleston. Show up in a flannel shirt get his picture taken for the papers & TV. Do a local TV interview affecting a WV twang (With a NY accent yet!) demonstrating he’s just like the simple hill folks.
It always worked!
Jay Rockefeller was a Democrat.