Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, and father of former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, says he is a hillbilly.

On Monday night, the father of dog-killer David Huckabee, tweeted in reaction to a hysterical CNN video where Don Lemon and Rick Wilson joke about Trump supporters not liking to be educated.

Huckabee tweeted, “Arrogant, elitist snobs w/ noses so high in the air a good rain would drown them. Keep up your contempt of us deplorable “hillbillies.” Laugh at us loud now. Election night when Donald Trump wins in landslide reelection, I’m sure you won’t look so smug.”

LMAO

Arrogant, elitist snobs w/ noses so high in the air a good rain would drown them. Keep up your contempt of us deplorable "hillbillies." Laugh at us loud now. Election night when @realDonaldTrump wins in landslide reelection, I'm sure you won't look so smug. https://t.co/bstNxKF9Xq

— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) January 28, 2020

Now, here we have Huckabee calling himself a hillbilly (I agree, he is deplorable), but is he really a hillbilly?

Let’s take a look at this.

Huckabee also constantly shouts out that he’s no stinking’ elitist.

Now, Huckabee isn’t the most educated man on the planet, but he does have a college degree. He graduated from Ouachita Baptist University on May 8, 1978, so obviously he isn’t against higher education.

But let’s look at his house.

First, it should be noted that Huckabee moved from his beloved Arkansas to Florida, because he wanted to pay less taxes on his media empire.

Not long after his failed 2008 presidential bid, Huckabee bought a beachfront plot in the Florida Panhandle and built a three-story, 10,000-square-foot mansion, with six bedrooms, seven-and-a-half bathrooms, and a pool.

By planting his flag in the white Florida sand, Huckabee was escaping Arkansas income taxes and joining other rich Republicans who owned houses in this particular part of Walton County, including Karl Rove.

The beach house was a sign that he’d made it. As he explained in an email to a state senator years later, “Having grown up dirt poor in Arkansas, I never thought I’d see saltwater in person, much less live on a beach.”

There was just one problem: Huckabee built his dream house on a public beach, a spot where some of the more than 4 million spring breakers and tourists who come to Walton County each year had been parking their lawn chairs and fishing poles since time immemorial. That meant the Fox News contributor had to share much of the 115-foot-long spit of sand in front of his $6 million house with those who helped pay for it—the people who watch his TV show. And he didn’t like it one bit.

So Huckabee lobbied local officials to cleanse it of the riffraff…you know, Trump supporters.

Now, along with his rich neighbors, he’s taken the matter to court.

In 2012, Huckabee hired a lawyer and asked a judge to grant him ownership of the land stretching from the dune at the foot of his house down to the mean high-water line—essentially the wet sand and the Gulf of Mexico itself.

No one appears to have protested the request, and the judge agreed, giving Huckabee the beach for a mere $400. Nearly two dozen of his neighbors have also quietly annexed the beach while escaping any additional taxes.

The result is a checkerboard of public and private space along the water’s edge for miles of Walton beachfront.

Huckabee’s beach is private, but the one next door isn’t—at least not for now.

Last summer, Huckabee bought the three-bedroom 1960s bungalow next door for $3 million, through a trust. Last March, he filed a lawsuit to extend the house’s property line from the base of the house to the mean high-water line, thus expanding his empire and annexing a beach that’s been used by the public for generations. If he succeeds, he won’t have to pay any additional taxes on the land, either.

So make no mistake, Huckabee is an elitist.