"just folks" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 21, in The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch",
          "text": "\"You still think they come all boxed, sorted, and labeled, do you?\" he said. \"And that they aren't ‘just folks’ at all?\"\n\"Yes, I still think so. They never seem a bit like ‘folks’ to me. It's their business to sit up there stiff and solemn and stern.\"",
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          "text": "He was happy . . . to be going out to a restaurant without having to sign books or talk to students about Whitman and Melville. . . . Idolized Bech loved, at the end of a long day impersonating himself, being just folks.",
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          "ref": "2005 January 11, Ruth La Ferla, “What the First Lady Will Wear”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-12-04",
          "text": "\"She has gone from being just folks to being a bit imperial, assuming a bit more of a queenly role,\" said Ms. Allgor.",
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        "Ordinary, unpretentious people; an ordinary, unpretentious person."
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        "(idiomatic, sometimes used as if singular) Ordinary, unpretentious people; an ordinary, unpretentious person."
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          "ref": "2001 June 24, Margaret Carlson, “Shear Dismay”, in Time",
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        "(idiomatic, attributively, sometimes hyphenated) Unpretentious, informal, down-to-earth."
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