[Still Thinking]

I wonder what made Arkansas so different from the trajectory of the other Southern states.

[Gay State Conservative]

I wonder what made Arkansas so different from the trajectory of the other Southern states.

A lack of those damn Yankees?

[smokingfrog]

Population growth would be my guess. It takes a while for the FDR democrats from the 30’s & 40’s to die off.

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I wonder what made Arkansas so different from the trajectory of the other Southern states.

A lack of those damn Yankees?

Population growth would be my guess. It takes a while for the FDR democrats from the 30’s & 40’s to die off.

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Both good answers. Arkansas was the most rural and agricultural of Southern states, without even a little bit of coastline where northern retirees moved, so the state was the slowest one to change.

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In olden days, as Vermont went, Arkansas went the other way: