rural values
Small-town moral code
Rural values is a phrase invoking the traditional outlook attributed to people living in the countryside—self-reliance, hard work, neighborliness, religious faith, and connection to the land.
The term appears most often in political rhetoric, where it signals authenticity and contrasts with supposedly corrupted urban attitudes: a candidate who understands rural values.
What counts as rural values varies by speaker.
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- old fashionedNo longer contemporary
- communityCollective of connected people
- small townModest rural settlement
- simplicityLack of complexity
good neighbors · country living · hard day's work · family · Sunday dinner · homestead · front porch · farming · faith · neighborly · self-reliance · honest · salt of the earth · land · roots · humble · wholesome · church
- Huasohorsemanship, horse riding, lasso, spurs, stirrups
- rural lifefarms, village, villages, farming, farmhouses
- Jefferson EraThomas Jefferson, Democratic-Republicans, Louisiana Purchase, Monticello, Lewis and Clark
- nationalismpatriotism, national pride, national sovereignty, national identity, national symbols
rural valuesprogressive values
Socially reformist political beliefs
modernism · progressive ideals · globalism · multiculturalism · worldliness
rural, rurally, rurality, value, values, valued, valuing, valuable, invaluable