Why are country people thought to be ignorant?

It just depends on which side of the fence you are asking from. I also know that rural people consider city folks impractical and helpless and dumb. Yes, students in schools are always looking for someone to pick on and look down upon. Dumb, and ignorant are where you find them. Sometimes in highest academia.

Nope, I am still consider quaint and a curiosity here in California because I come from the backwoods middle America. People still view people from the country as uneducated and backwards. They mistake conservatism for ignorance.

There are many reasons. First, it is the accent. I think it is beautiful but some people from the north hear it and assume the speaker is ignorant.Second, it goes back to the way the people of the mountains and hills were portrayed in the media back in the day.People think if you are from the hills , you are a hillbilly,remember the Beverly Hillbillies? Because your living comes from the land, you can't bee that smart.That is so wrong.And three, because of the accent and the region, the southern slang is way different than the north and some northerners take that as being less intelligent.More B.S. Do I think anything has changed? Maybe. The only way to dis spell these myths is for more people to meet and hang out with our cousins from the south.It can change.

Well in my state the people from the country are thought to be more knowing type. Personally i too think they are not ignorant.But i agree they are simple and innocent. Still they are more efficient than the city people.

I think the ignorance and false perceptions goes both ways. I know that I have to tell myself not to judge people by where they come from. It's hardest with people from way out in the middle of nowhere because they talk so darn slow, but this is true of anyone who talks slow. I spent 10 years in the city where everything is fast and faster. Slow was a no go. The attitude there was if you snooze you loose. Very few people gave you time to slowly collect your thoughts, therefor if you spoke slowly it must mean you couldn't think any faster. Now logically this is not true. Slow speech is just an accent. County people think city folks are a bit slow on the uptake. City folks also don't know even the basics on keeping livestock, like you don't need a rooster to get eggs from your chickens. Hello folks, it's an egg. The basic biology of all mammals is fundamentally the same. The rooster is only necessary for fertilization if you want baby chicks. How hard is it to milk a cow or a goat? How can any adult not know how? Even a 5 year old can do that.

Often people are judged according to their nativity. It is a misconception that people from rural areas are ignorant. Many of the great personalities in history and present are from rural areas. I don't think people perception has not changed much even today.

It is still common. People who live in the city think that people who come from the country do not know about the real world. They consider themselves sophisticated. The only ones who are not sophisticated of the city people are those who have parents or in-laws who just came in from the country and if they are smart, they will teach their children to be like they are, conservative. But sometimes the children will not listen. I gather it is because in the country, you are working on the farm and do not have time to play games or to do what the city kids do. But with satellite , it is getting better.