So by your own admission you look to the national government to solve your needs instead of getting involved at the local and state level. Interesting considering that the men who founded this nation had specific limited responsibilities for the national government, expecting almost all, if not all, issues to be handled by local or state governments. Kind of a new standard or form of government from what the Founders had in mind originally isn't it? Wait a minute, that would be liberal thinking and not conservative
BTW, Arkansas 'politicos', as you put it, are Democrats for an important reason, whether or not they are liberal or conservative. What's happened is that the Democratic party has used that against the locals to get men like Clinton elected