Hayseeds, Moralizers and Methodists : University Press of Kansas : 9780700603619 : 0700603611 : 31 May 1988 : Ignobility stalks Kansas in an urban-centered and media-shaped American culture that tilts toward the coasts. The snubs proliferate. In the movie Vacation Chevy Chase contemplates a stop in Kansas at the House of Mud, "the largest free-standing mud dwelling ever built." A novelist skewers the oft-maligned Kansas landscape, "Love a place like Kansas and you can be content in a garden of raked sand," A poster urges the daring to "ski Kansas," and a New Yorker cartoon depicts a highway sign that announces, "You are entering Kansas, or some state very much like it." In the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, the evildoers suggest testing their anti-matter weapon on Kansas because "the world wouldn't learn about it for a year." A tee shirt bears the message, "Auntie Em?Hate you. Hate Kansas. Taking the dog. Dorothy." The tattered image of modern-day Kansas and how it got that way