Brother Dave got a good deal of comic mileage from his boosting of all things Southern, making him a latter-day version of Kenny Delmar's "Senator Claghorn" on Fred Allen's classic radio show. He smoked cigarettes during his routines, describing them as "a Southern product," and declaring "I like cigarettes - I'd smoke chains if I could light 'em." He spoke of a Southerner's culinary fondness for "a Moon Pie and an Ar-uh-Cee (R.C. Cola)." Anticipating the bottled-water market by almost 30 years, he remarked that, at Hot Springs, Arkansas, he had seen "some o' them "ignorant", "stupid" Southerners sellin' "water" to them "brilliant" Yankees." He noted that the difference between a Northern Baptist and a Southern Baptist was that a Northern Baptist said, "There "ain't" no Hell," and a Southern Baptist said, "The "hell" there ain't."