When people first started voting for Republicans, they didn't talk about it in public or even at family gatherings. Word got out slowly that some in the family had become Republicans. It was almost as big a scandal as when my Great Great Grandfather married his daughter in law.
It's hard to find a Democrat in Bentonville these days and those that are don't talk about it. One problem, of course, is that many of those old Democrats have become Republicans, but they still think like Democrats.
Arkansas was simply late to the GOP realignment in the South. Now all Southern states are under Republican rule.
Texas used to be solidly RAT until the rats organization was captured by the commies and sodomists. Having been a sovereign nation, maybe we’re more skeptical of interlopers and usurpers.
I wonder what made Arkansas so different from the trajectory of the other Southern states.
“One problem, of course, is that many of those old Democrats have become Republicans, but they still think like Democrats.”
And therein lies the rub!
Seems you can no longer ‘mug’ a Democrat ENOUGH to turn him Republican. :(
The switch from blue to red may have been in the making for some time. Arkansas has voted Republican in every presidential election beginning with 2000.
Unfortunately much the Delta region to the south east is still Dem.
I could easily find Rats in Bentonville.I'd check out the waiting room at the Social Security office and,bingo...everyone there who's under 62 is a Rat!
>> One-party Democratic rule in [Arkansas] lasted another 60 years.
They say inbreeding lowers intelligence, and here’s Exhibit A. :-)
Exhibit B: anything Huckabee.
Arkansas has changed politically more rapidly than any other state in the union. But it’s not because its people have changed, but because every other part of the country has changed and it’s responding to those changes to protect its own best interests.
More good news out of Arkansas, Tom Cotton appears to be regaining the lead over faux moderate Mark Pryor.
Plus, many hangers on who had careers based on Democrat patronage jobs.
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I think that’s how Democrats and liberals control so much power in states like California, where conservatives actually outnumber liberals by a couple of percentage points. They are good at doling out the money and favors.
Even after all these years, there are still tid-bits I don't know of the fakery and political calculation that define the Clintons. There are so many, one can never learn them all
Huckabee was governor before 2010. Asa Hutchison served in Congress before 2010. Tho, I o remember talking to him in the mid 80s when he said only AR and TN remained D states. Both have changed dramatically. I just think it began earlier than Barnes’s column claims.
BTW, you mentioned you were related to some prominent political figures, who were they ? I’m curious.
Your folks are Jewish? [/humor]