The best propane salesman in Arlen, Texas, Hank is such a straight-up red-stater that he forbids his son Bobby from writing a school project on President Josiah Bartlet from the West Wing – and makes him extol the virtues of Ronald Reagan instead. Hill is a simple man, probably much closer to an American everyman than Homer Simpson. I n the first ever scene of King of the Hill, Hank Hill and his friends stand around the front of Hank's broken-down Ford truck, drinking beer and lamenting the state of the US auto industry: 'Detroit hasn't felt any real pride since George Bush went to Japan and vomited on their auto executives.'