Political Breakdown of Arkansas and Missouri

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Rough, eh?

Arkansas

North: Populist Democratic (mostly Yellow Dog) area
South: See above. Bubba's home turf. Larger Black population than North.
Delta: Populist Democratic. Mostly (though far from exclusivly) Black.
North West: Republican (big Religious Right element, btw) with the exception of Fayetteville and the small Arkansas coalfield (both of which lean Democratic).
Little Rock Metro: Little Rock is solidly Democratic, the suburbs are (for the most part) typical lily white sunbelt GOP strongholds.

Arkansas is a fundamentally Democratic state and the AR GOP only has a machine in the NW and the Little Rock 'burbs.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Then why has it gone Republican for the last 3 elections?

You mean Presidential elections? It hasn't... Bubba won it in 96.

Presidential voting patterns don't usually reflect Partisan alignments all that well (example: 57% of Kentucky voters are Democrats) and Arkansas is a socially conservative state (as I've indicated).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Arkansas was one of the lowest margin southern Carter states in 1976, I think.  Ford almost carried it.

It has only gone Democrat when the "favorite son" was running since then.  It seems to be a lot like Georgia.

You're thinking of Mississippi: Carter cracked 60% in Arkansas

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Arkansas was one of the lowest margin southern Carter states in 1976, I think.  Ford almost carried it.

It has only gone Democrat when the "favorite son" was running since then.  It seems to be a lot like Georgia.

You're thinking of Mississippi: Carter cracked 60% in Arkansas

Actually, I was thinking of MO.

Either way it began with an "M" ;-)