Blanche and Pryor were both running in toxic Democratic environments. Hillary will be running in a presidential year with higher turnout in [probably] a more neutral political atmosphere. While one cannot deny that Arkansas has swung incredibly rightward, I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that she will certainly try to make Arkansas competitive; if nothing else, shave off some of the McCain/Romney margin and keep the Republican in single digits; however, if it's a Cruz/Carson/Paul type, she could very well win the state.
Nonsense. All of those candidates are well suited for AR.
In Presidential years in the past, and probably not anymore. The Republicans have played up the plantation heritage of most of the South, and it well fits an old ideal of extreme inequality and exploitation that fits the GOP elsewhere.
The "New South" of the 1970s through the 1990s of Al Gore and Bill Clinton is dead. The GOP in most of the South might as well revive the old White Citizens Councils and Sovereignty Committees as tools of political control and repression. The Democrats are going to win a statewide election Texas before they win any in the Mid-South (Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. 2026, maybe, in Texas, which has a very different ethnic mix and political heritage.
All that stops the full return of White Power in the Mid-South are the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 24th Amendments and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Lol no. I appeal to my fellow forumites - how many of you believe that slavery would be instituted in the South today without the 13th amendment?
