What is "hooterville"

Hooterville is a fictional farming community that is the setting for the American situation comedies Petticoat Junction (1963-1970) and Green Acres (1965-1971), two rural-oriented television shows created or commissioned by Paul Henning for Filmways and CBS. Hooterville is a town, a valley, and a county, and has been described as "a place simultaneously Southern and Midwestern, but in a vague sort of way." Little concrete or reliable information can be gleaned from the two shows about the place, as references in individual episodes are rife with inconsistencies, contradictions, geographic impossibilities and continuity errors. The writers of the two shows often changed the details about the Hooterville community at will for the purpose of cracking a joke, and they left certain details (such as its home state) purposely vague and unexplained.