An important fact about politics in Arkansas is that the population is growing quite rapidly in the Republican Ozarks of the Northwest. Wal-Mart is based up there in Bentonville, bringing lots of business types to the Republican voting totals. Like all of the South, except Florida (which is more independant) Arkansas is trending religious right fast.
Yes, but the religious right is something that we Southern Democrats can deal with. It's populist in nature, and we can get enough of it to still win elections; quite handily, in fact.
Now I would agree that the area growing around Bentonville consists largely of capitalist or liberatarian Republicans, who are not populist in nature.
