Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee recently told a radio program how he experienced culture shock when he encountered "trashy" New York women who swore all the time even in a professional setting.

"In the South, or in the Midwest, there in Iowa, you would not have people who would just throw the F-bomb or use gratuitous profanity in a professional setting," Huckabee shared about his experience in New York with Fox News.

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The former governor told Jan Mickelson of "Mickelson in the Morning" that it is not just men in New York who do it but women as well. He described what he heard as something worse than "locker-room" talk, an attitude that those from the South call "trashy."

Huckabee has recently quit his Fox News show to focus on his run for the presidential race in 2016. The comments about New York women have come a month after his big announcement.

On Wednesday, however, the former Arkansas governor clarified his earlier statement, saying it was not directed to his former colleagues at Fox News. He said it was just a general statement about his experiences in the East and West Coasts.

"I talked about the overall coarseness of conversation and gratuitous profanity that I hear in places in what I call the bubble zoo like New York, Washington and Hollywood," Huckabee clarified in a recorded audio statement aired by Tyler Cralle. "But, clearly, the reporters who took those headlines and made those stories up made 'em up out of thin air. It's an outright lie."

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