When I refer to yokels, I am referring to Christianity and in general puritanism and am in no way meaning to denigrate the working class, chum. Those Christians purposefully don’t learn things and try to prevent their families from learning things, whereas the working class learns difficult specialized labor.
Yokel means an uneducated, unsophisticated person from the countryside, not the working class and blue collar labor. I’m sorry for any confusion on this part.