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Originally Posted by xzmattzx
Nice pictures! I heard Little Rock is a pretty decent city. It seems that a main reason it isn't on anyone's radar around the country is simply the stigma attached to Arkansas' reputation as a backwater state.
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Some of the most liberal little towns I've ever been in were in Arkansas. Southern states like Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, West Virginia etc might be on the whole super redneck and idiotic but within those states are super extreme liberal towns where the progressive people in those states flock to to live. Examples in Arkansas are neighborhoods in Little Rock, Fayetteville, Eureka Springs, and Conway to some extent. And then in Arkansas you also have the river rat culture, which is super liberal with a mix of blue grass music, basically hippies wearing tye die rafting, canoeing, kayaking on the Buffalo River and partake in bluegrass etc music festivals and smoke Shit loads of weed.
Arkansas is a super weird state. You have the rednecks of central and western Arkansas with a mix of progressive college towns scattered about with many diesel spewing jacked up trucks waving Confederate Flags and the smell of Tyson Chicken farms wafting through the air. The West Central part of the state is basically West Virginia Appalachia. Southwestern Arkansas, with its lightly rolling countryside and many towns largely comprised of Latino immigrants and possibly the Fouke Monster lurking about the swamps near Texarkana. Then eastern Arkansas, which is flat and largely full of depopulated majority black towns with a mix of BB King, Black Oak Arkansas and Gospel Music baked altogether and set to dry in the hot summer sun.