Abner Yokum

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Abner Yokum is a fictional character and the title character of the American newspaper comic strip Li'l Abner. Created by cartoonist Al Capp, the strip ran from 1934 to 1977 and depicted life in the fictional Appalachian town of Dogpatch. Abner Yokum is portrayed as a handsome, strong, yet simple-minded and lazy hillbilly. The strip often featured stereotypes of Appalachia, with the women of Dogpatch, such as Abner's mother Mammy Yokum and his eventual wife Daisy Mae Scragg, typically doing most of the work. Li'l Abner used exaggerated hillbilly slang and satirized American life and politics.12

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Li’l Abner
Its title character, Abner Yokum, was a handsome, muscle-bound hillbilly, as lazy as he was dull witted. Like Abner, most of the men of Dogpatch were cast as essentially useless to society; all the real work was done by the “wimmenfolk.” One such woman was the curvaceous and…
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Its title character, Abner Yokum, was a handsome, muscle-bound hillbilly, as lazy as he was dull witted. Like Abner, most of the men of Dogpatch were cast as essentially useless to society; all the real work was done by the “wimmenfolk.” One such woman was the curvaceous and…
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