Dude, it's Berkeley. If we were to equate "hick" with ignoramus, then 99% of Californians are backward hicks. Put your feet up and watch Cali drown either in the Pacific or in its unsustainable liberal utopia.
"So to eradicate school misbehavior, we must fix troubled families, even troubled neighborhoods"
Finn should know better as a conservative.
Fix troubled families = a bigger bureaucracy, universal laws that will unnecessarily apply to well-managed homes and will be resented by those people they aim to help, more social programs that will allure corrupt government employees to embezzle funds from, ad infinitum.