History Main / BourgeoisBumpkin

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* This trope usually is an outcome when a [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer heavily bullied]] or [[IntelligenceEqualsIsolation otherwise lonely]] boy succeeds in his adult life and ekes out a materially comfortable niche in his life. [[JustifiedTrope Somewhat justified]], as the scorn and hostility he has received early in his life [[InternalizedCategorism leave their scars on the psyche]] and may lead into social impairment.
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Many stories set in the [[DeepSouth South]] or the [[FlyoverCountry Midwest]] (particularly the more "western" part of the Midwest) will feature characters of this type. They are often NouveauRiche - and if the "hick" part of their persona is more apparent than usual, they're bound to have traces of the CorruptHick as well. Despite the name, this character need not be a literal hick or even rural; an urban character will do if his traits include political conservatism and a disgruntled and/or entitled attitude toward the world. If such a character ever does gain ultimate power, expect a PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny. Related tropes include AngryWhiteMan, AstroTurf, GoodOlBoy, LowerClassLout (when it's an InsultBackfire), ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife, RealMenLoveJesus, SchoolBullyGrownUp, SnobsVersusSlobs, and {{Trumplica}}.

Many stories set in the [[DeepSouth South]] or the [[FlyoverCountry Midwest]] (particularly the more "western" part of the Midwest) will feature characters of this type. They are often NouveauRiche - and if the "hick" part of their persona is more apparent than usual, they're bound to have traces of the CorruptHick as well. Despite the name, this character need not be a literal hick or even rural; an urban character will do if his traits include political conservatism and a disgruntled and/or entitled attitude toward the world. If such a character ever does gain ultimate power, expect a PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny. Related tropes include AngryWhiteMan, AstroTurf, GoodOlBoy, LowerClassLout (when it's an InsultBackfire), ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife, RealMenLoveJesus, SchoolBullyAllGrownUp, SnobsVersusSlobs, and {{Trumplica}}.

Many stories set in the [[DeepSouth South]] or the [[FlyoverCountry Midwest]] (particularly the more "western" part of the Midwest) will feature characters of this type. They are often NouveauRiche - and if the "hick" part of their persona is more apparent than usual, they're bound to have traces of the CorruptHick as well. Despite the name, this character need not be a literal hick or even rural; an urban character will do if his traits include political conservatism and a disgruntled and/or entitled attitude toward the world. If such a character ever does gain ultimate power, expect a PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny. Related tropes include AngryWhiteMan, AstroTurf, GoodOlBoy, LowerClassLout (when it's an InsultBackfire), ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife, RealMenLoveJesus, SnobsVersusSlobs, and {{Trumplica}}.

Many stories set in the [[DeepSouth South]] or the [[FlyoverCountry Midwest]] (particularly the more "western" part of the Midwest) will feature characters of this type. They are often NouveauRiche - and if the "hick" part of their persona is more apparent than usual, they're bound to have traces of the CorruptHick as well. Despite the name, this character need not be a literal hick or even rural; an urban character will do if his traits include political conservatism and a disgruntled and/or entitled attitude toward the world. If such a character ever does gain ultimate power, expect a PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny. Related tropes include AngryWhiteMan, AstroTurf, GoodOlBoy, LowerClassLout (when it's an InsultBackfire), ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife, RealMenLoveJesus, and SnobsVersusSlobs.

* Those incels who find a meaningful job, obviously.

This trope ''heavily'' overlaps with SelfMadeMan, especially if the person in question comes from a seriously disadvantaged background. Succeeding in life from a FriendlessBackground may also lead into a BourgeoisBumpkin.

* This trope usually is an outcome when a [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer heavily bullied]] or [[IntelligenceEqualsIsolation otherwise lonely]] boy succeeds in his adult life and ekes out a materially comfortable niche in his life. [[JustifiedTrope Somewhat justified]], as the scorn and hostility he hase received early in his life [[InternalizedCategorism leave their scars on the psyche]] and lead into social impairment.

This trope ''heavily'' overlaps with SelfMadeMan, especially if the person in question comes from a seriously disadvantaged background.

This trope ''heavily'' overlaps with [[SelfMadeMan]], especially if the person in question comes from a seriously disadvantaged background.

* This trope usually is an outcome when a [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer heavily bullied]] or [[IntelligenceEqualsIsolation otherwise lonely]] boys succeed in their adult lives and eke out materially comfortable niches in their lives. The scorn and hostility they have received early in their lives [[InternalizedCategorism leave their scars on the psyche]] and lead into social impairment.

Another important difference is that while the Bohemian will, for the most part, shy away from proletarian trappings (although proclaiming that they're fine and good for other people), the Bumpkin fully embraces them, or at least embraces them as much as is feasible or plausible. The Bourgeois Bumpkin is as proud to be a bumpkin ("hick") as a Bourgeois Bohemian is to be a [[{{Hipster}} hip, "cool" dude]]. Indeed, much of the irony that proceeds from the Bourgeois Bumpkin is the dissonance between his avowed affinity for all things bumpkinish and his professed sympathy for bumpkins on one hand, and on the other his self-absorbed [[AngryWhiteMan outrage and indignation]] at the supposed hardships he faces - hardships that pale in comparison to those of actual bumpkins. To put it another way, while the Bohemian's sympathizes and possibly identifies with so-called social outcasts, the Bumpkin believes that he is ''himself'' an outcast, even though this is obviously not so.

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* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'': The PlayerCharacter's mother [[ImpoverishedPatrician Leandra]] chose to leave her BlueBlood family behind to [[MarryForLove elope with a mercenary]] 25 years ago, and only returns to her home city of Kirkwall when her new home is destroyed by the [[WorldWreckingWave Blight]]. While her brother gambled away their Hightown mansion without telling her and lives in a hovel in Lowtown (the slums), nevertheless he helps her get into the city while most Blight refugees were turned away, and gives her and her children free room and board for a year to help them get back on their feet. (Also, while Lowtown isn't as nice as Hightown, it's still better than the [[EnslavedElves Elven]] [[FantasticGhetto Alienage]] or [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Darktown]].) She promptly spends the next year moping around, refusing to get a job, pay rent, or move out; complaining about the state of her brother's "house" (despite not having a job and not doing any chores) and her family's "disgrace," and never stops complaining that her family ''deserves'' to be restored to its "rightful place" in Hightown, while refusing suggestions that the family take up a trade or start over somewhere else. To her, anything less than a mansion in Hightown is abject poverty and disgrace, even though their family still have it better than most Kirkwall residents, and even though she refuses to lift a finger to work for it.
-->'''Leandra:''' My children have been in indentured servitude for a year. Servitude! They should be nobility!
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'':
** While Sera is biologically a city elf (who are EnslavedElves), she identifies with Andrastian human commoners (European Christian peasants) and insist they have it worst and are the most oppressed by the abusive nobles, while dismissing the plight of mages and city elves (who live in {{fantastic ghetto}}s and [[AntiMagicalFaction prison towers]]). She sees mages as a privileged elite due to having powers that normal people don't have, and sees city elves as professional whiners.
** [[PlayerCharacter The Inquisitor]] can accuse Josephine Montilyet of being this. During Josephine's personal quest, she reveals her family (from the [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Fantasy equivalent of Renaissance Italy]]) used to be prosperous merchant princes until a bad run-in with another noble family cut off many trade avenues and put them in massive debt. She wants help settling the quarrel so her family can remain IdleRich. The Inquisitor can accuse her of presenting a non-issue since it's not like her family is starving ([[CrapsackWorld unlike many in Thedas]]), and at worst her siblings will have to take up trades rather than coasting off their family's inherited wealth. Josephine argues why she ''shouldn't'' make it so her brothers will never have to work?

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* WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman's Beatrice Horseman, [=BoJack=]'s mother, plays with this trope. After getting hitched, she was forced to give up much of her luxuries but this was mostly due to a stern belief in financial independence and the desire to break away from her father's money (and influence), however, she didn't count on being unable to cope with normal life, along with the lack of creature comforts to distract her. The unfairness of her situation with boiling resentment made her turn on everyone as an outlet, instead of accepting her part in this. Even after convincing Butterscotch to take a job in a branch at her father's company and getting some of the prestige, it's still not enough, as, in her view, she's disadvantaged in comparison to her days as an heiress.

Many stories set in the [[DeepSouth South]] or the [[FlyoverCountry Midwest]] (particularly the more "western" part of the Midwest) will feature characters of this type. They are often NouveauRiche - and if the "hick" part of their persona is more apparent than usual, they're bound to have traces of the CorruptHick as well. Despite the name, this character need not be a literal hick or even rural; an urban character will do if his traits include political conservatism and a disgruntled and/or entitled attitude toward the world. If such a character ever does gain ultimate power, expect a PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny. Related tropes include AngryWhiteMan, AstroTurf, GoodOlBoy, LowerClassLout (when it's an InsultBackfire), RealMenLoveJesus, and SnobsVersusSlobs.

* George Hamilton portrayed country music star Hank Williams as a more sympathetic take on this character type. Born poor and taught to play the guitar by a homeless street musician, Williams is shown to be growing uncomfortable once his career rockets him to fame and he and his wife move into a mansion. Hank feels tremendous guilt and thinks himself a CategoryTraitor - but that doesn't stop him from ordering his butler to bring him a beer.

Many stories set in the [[DeepSouth South]] or the [[FlyoverCountry Midwest]] (particularly the more "western" part of the Midwest) will feature characters of this type. They are often NouveauRiche - and if the "hick" part of their persona is more apparent than usual, they're bound to have traces of the CorruptHick as well. Despite the name, this character need not be a literal hick or even rural; an urban character will do if his traits include political conservatism and a disgruntled and/or entitled attitude toward the world. If such a character ever does gain ultimate power, expect a PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny. Related tropes include AstroTurf, GoodOlBoy, LowerClassLout (when it's an InsultBackfire), RealMenLoveJesus, and SnobsVersusSlobs.

** While Sera is biologically a city elf (who are EnslavedElves), she identifies with Andrastian human commoners and insist they have it worst and are the most oppressed by the abusive nobles, while dismissing the plight of mages and city elves (who live in {{fantastic ghetto}}s and prison towers), as she sees mages as a privileged elite due to having powers that normal people don't have, and sees city elves as professional whiners.
** [[PlayerCharacter The Inquisitor]] can actually accuse Adviser Josephine Montilyet of being this. During her personal quest, she reveals that her family (from the [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Fantasy equivalent of Renaissance Italy]]) used to be prosperous merchant princes until a bad run-in with another noble family cut off many trade avenues and put them in massive debt, which will eventually lower them from outright nobility to mere gentry. She wants help settling the quarrel with the rival noble family so her family can remain IdleRich. The Inquisitor can accuse her of presenting a non-issue, since it's not like her family is starving ([[CrapsackWorld unlike many in Thedas]]), and the worst that can happen is that her siblings will have to take up trades or professions rather than coasting off their family's inherited wealth. Josephine asks why she ''shouldn't'' make it so her brothers will never have to work.

This character type is described in great detail in Thomas Frank's 2003 book ''What's the Matter With Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America''. This book, which traces the rise of the new, [[DarkerAndEdgier rawer, and angrier]] brand of American political conservatism that fully crystallized in TheNineties, explains how the radical right appropriated the "class-warfare" worldview of the radical left and retooled it to serve their ends, substituting resentment toward elites' supposed moral depravity (think of the middle-class backlash against royal scandals in Britain beginning in the Victorian era, but much more outré in style) for resentment toward elites' support of the economic status quo. In Kansas and other "red" states, wealthy conservative politicos will take this basic stance in order to appeal to working-class voters. George Wallace and UsefulNotes/RichardNixon are generally considered [[TropeCodifier the first men to employ this tactic]], with Nixon referring to it as his "Southern Strategy." Nixon did the same in the northern states with the "silent majority", by appealing to working-class voters who held conservative views on crime, civil rights, and national security.

Another important difference is that while the Bohemian will, for the most part, shy away from proletarian trappings (although proclaiming that they're fine and good for other people), the Bumpkin fully embraces them, or at least embraces them as much as is feasible or plausible. The Bourgeois Bumpkin is as proud to be a bumpkin ("hick") as a Bourgeois Bohemian is to be a [[{{Hipster}} hip, "cool" dude]]. Indeed, much of the irony that proceeds from the Bourgeois Bumpkin is the dissonance between his avowed affinity for all things bumpkinish and his professed sympathy for bumpkins on one hand, and on the other his self-absorbed outrage and indignation at the supposed hardships he faces - hardships that pale in comparison to those of actual bumpkins. To put it another way, while the Bohemian's sympathizes and possibly identifies with so-called social outcasts, the Bumpkin believes that he is ''himself'' an outcast, even though this is obviously not so.

* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': While Sera is biologically a city elf (who are EnslavedElves), she identifies with Andrastian human commoners and insist they it worst and are most oppressed by abusive nobles, while dismissing the plight of mages and city elves (who live in {{fantastic ghetto}}s and prison towers), as she sees mages as a privileged elite due to having powers that normal people don't have, and sees city elves as professional whiners.
** [[PlayerCharacter The Inquisitor]] can actually accuse Adviser Josephine Montilyet of being this. During her personal quest, she reveals that her family (from the [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Fantasy equivalent of Renaissance Italy]]) used to be prosperous merchant princes until a bad run-in with another noble family cut off many trade avenues and put them in massive debt, which will eventually lower them from outright nobility to mere gentry. She wants help settling the quarrel with the rival noble family so her family can remain IdleRich. The Inquisitor can accuse her of presenting a non-issue, since it's not like her family is starving ([[CrapsackWorld unlike many in Thedas]]), and the worst that can happen is her siblings will have to take up trades or professions rather than coasting off their family's inherited wealth. Josephine argues why ''shouldn't'' she make it so her brothers will never have to work?

Another important difference is that while the Bohemian will, for the most part, shy away from proletarian trappings (although proclaiming that they're fine and good for other people), the Bumpkin fully embraces them, or at least embraces them as much as is feasible or plausible. The Bourgeois Bumpkin is as proud to be a bumpkin ("hick") as a Bourgeois Bohemian is to be a [[{{Hipster}} hip, "cool" dude]]. Indeed, much of the irony that proceeds from the Bourgeois Bumpkin is the dissonance between his avowed affinity for all things bumpkinish and his professed sympathy for bumpkins on one hand, and on the other his self-absorbed outrage and indignation at the supposed hardships he faces - hardships that pale in comparison to those of actual bumpkins. To put it another way, while the Bohemian's wishes sympathize and possibly identify with so-called social outcasts, the Bumpkin believes that he is ''himself'' an outcast, even though this is obviously not so.

[[caption-width-right:300:"Oh this cursed Ministry! They'll ruin me with their damned taxes!-- Why, Zounds! They're making slaves of us all, starving us to death!"[[note]]James Gilray, "French Liberty and British Slavery", 1792[[/note]] ]]

A Bourgeois Bumpkin is, generally, someone who enjoys many privileges - or at least enough privileges to be happy - yet suffers from delusions that he[[note]]primarily for historical and cultural reasons, this character is AlwaysMale, although there are some exceptions[[/note]] is deprived, marginalized, persecuted, or otherwise disadvantaged. In practice this character type will tend to overlap with the BourgeoisBohemian, but a key difference is that, typically, while a Bourgeois Bohemian is depicted having a "bleeding heart" for other people, the Bourgeois Bumpkin has a heart that bleeds [[ItsAllAboutMe primarily for himself]]. And precisely because the Bumpkin is more likely to see himself as a victim than the Bohemian, he'll tend to complain a lot more.

Many stories set in the [[DeepSouth South]] or the [[FlyoverCountry Midwest]] (particularly the more "western" part of the Midwest) will feature characters of this type. They are often NouveauRiche - and if the "hick" part of their persona is more apparent than usual, they're bound to have traces of the CorruptHick as well. Despite the name, this character need not be a literal hick, or even rural; an urban character will do if his traits include political conservatism and a disgruntled and/or entitled attitude toward the world. If such a character ever does gain ultimate power, expect a PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny. Related tropes include AstroTurf, GoodOlBoy, LowerClassLout (when it's an InsultBackfire), RealMenLoveJesus, and SnobsVersusSlobs.

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Hank Hill is likely to have trouble getting along with anyone different from himself, and it's definite that bourgeois values are part of who he is. Therefore, he clashes not only with some bohemian types, but also with any characters who are just-plain bumpkins with no bourgeois redeeming qualities. He is likely to be annoyed by characters like Lucky, Dale, and the many other residents of Arlen who are far more redneck than he is.
* WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman's Beatrice Horseman, [=BoJack=]'s mother, plays with this trope. After getting hitched, she was forced to give up much of her luxuries but this was mostly due to a stern belief in financial independence and the desire to break away from her father money (and influence), however, she didn't count on being unable to cope with normal life, along with the lack of creature comforts to distract her. The unfairness of her situation with boiling resentment made her turn on everyone as an outlet, instead of accepting her part in this. Even after convincing Butterscotch to take a job in a branch at her father's company and getting some of the prestige, it's still not enough, as, in her view, she's disadvantaged in comparison to her days as an heiress.

* ''VideoGame/DragonAge2'': The PlayerCharacter's mother [[ImpoverishedPatrician Leandra]] chose to leave her BlueBlood family behind to [[MarryForLove elope with a mercenary]] 25 years ago, and only returns to her home city of Kirkwall when her new home is destroyed by the [[WorldWreckingWave Blight]]. While her brother gambled away their Hightown mansion without telling her and lives in a hovel in Lowtown (the slums), nevertheless he helps her get into the city while most Blight refugees were turned away, and gives her and her children free room and board for a year to help them get back on their feet. (Also, while Lowtown isn't as nice as Hightown, it's still better than the [[EnslavedElves Elven]] [[FantasticGhetto Alienage]] or [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Darktown]].) She promptly spends the next year moping around, refusing to get a job, pay rent, or move out; complaining about the state of her brother's "house" (despite not having a job and not doing any chores) and her family's "disgrace," and never stops complaining that her family ''deserves'' to be restored to its "rightful place" in Hightown, while refusing suggestions that the family take up a trade or start over somewhere else. To her, anything less than a mansion in Hightown is abject poverty and disgrace, even though their family still have it better than most Kirkwall residents, and even though she refuses to lift a finger to work for it.

A Bourgeois Bumpkin is, generally, someone who enjoys many privileges - or at least enough privileges to be happy - yet suffers from delusions that he[[note]]primarily for historical and cultural reasons, this character is AlwaysMale, although there are some exceptions[[/note]] is deprived, marginalized, persecuted, or otherwise disadvantaged. In practice this character type will tend to overlap with the BourgeoisBohemian, but a key difference is that, typically, while a Bourgeois Bohemian is depicted having a "bleeding heart" for other people, the Bourgeois Bumpkin has a heart that bleeds [[TheNarcissist primarily for himself]]. And precisely because the Bumpkin is more likely to see himself as a victim than the Bohemian, he'll tend to complain a lot more.

* ''VideoGame/DragonAge2'': The PlayerCharacter's ImpoverishedPatrician mother Leandra chose to leave her fortune behind to elope with an apostate and only returns to her home city 25 years later when her new home is destroyed by the [[WorldWreckingWave Blight]]. While her brother gambled away the family fortune without telling her and lives in a hovel in Lowtown, nevertheless he helps her get into the city where most Ferelden refugees were turned away, and gives her and her children free room and board for a year to help them get back on their feet. Most Ferelden refugees in Kirkwall live in abject poverty due to the high influx of low skill labor flooding into the city, and Lowtown is still better off than the Alienage or Darktown. Nevertheless, Leandra never stops complaining that her family is "disgraced" due to no longer living in Hightown, and never stops nagging her brother, oldest child, or viscount to restore the family to their "proper" place in Hightown [[spoiler:until her oldest child strikes gold in the Deep Roads]]. To her, ''anything'' less than a mansion and huge pile of gold among the nobility is poverty and disgrace, since even a modest farm or comfortable home in Lowtown is less than the fortune she was raised with.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': A rather odd case as Sera is biologically a [[EnslavedElves city elf]], yet culturally identifies with Andrastian human commoners. That said, she often insists Andrastian human muggle commoners have it worst and are most oppressed by abusive nobles, while dismissing the plight of mages and city elves (who objectively have it worse due to elves being locked in {{fantastic ghetto}}s and mages locked in towers), as she sees mages as a privileged elite due to having powers that normal people don't have, and sees city elves as professional whiners.