Penance for the Clintons?
And nothing will change.
The Clintons did well by moving to New York.
Ditto Utah with Mia Love winning District 4!
The Great State of Arkansas
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"Arkansas is a state located in the Southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. The state's diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozarks and the Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta. Arkansas is the 29th most extensive and the 32nd most populous of the 50 United States. The capital and most populous city is Little Rock, located in the central portion of the state. The Territory of Arkansas was admitted to the union as the 25th state on June 15, 1836.
The name “Arkansas” derives from the same root as the name for the state of Kansas. The Kansa tribe of Native Americans are closely associated with the Sioux tribes of the Great Plains. The word “Arkansas” itself is a French pronunciation (“Arcansas”) of a Quapaw (a related “Kaw” tribe) word, akakaze, meaning “land of downriver people” or the Sioux word akakaze meaning “people of the south wind”. "source: Wikipedia
Thank you, Arkansas FReepers!
I'm still surprised that he ran again..I was convinced last year that he'd retire..go out gracefully..you think he'd have learned after what happened to Blanche Lincoln..
Democratic dominance was the result of the Civil War. Arkansas was one of the old states of the Deep South that seceded from the Union as a slave state and fought to protect the peculiar institution.
It was occupied by Union forces during the Civil War and was readmitted to the Union around 1870. Republican rule was associated with the Southern defeat and every one who knew every one was a Democrat for generations.
There were very few Republicans in Arkansas until recently and no GOP party organization existed except in the northwest corner of the state and any one who wanted to get into politics had to become a Democrat.
That makes Tuesday’s transformation in Arkansas all the more stunning.
