Dogpatch
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"Dogpatch" redirects here. For other uses, see Dogpatch (disambiguation).
Dogpatch was the fictional setting of most of Al Capp's Li'l Abner comic strip.
The inhabitants of Dogpatch were mostly lazy hillbillies, who wanted nothing to do with progress, were extremely patriotic, and devastatingly poor. The town was often referred to by its inhabitants and outsiders as being the most miserable and unnecessary place on Earth.
Capp used to joke that Dogpatch was based on Seabrook, New Hampshire, where he would vacation with his wife. [1]
A theme park named Dogpatch USA, based on the comic's setting, was built in 1967 in Marble Falls, Arkansas. The park closed in 1993 due to deep debt.
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