Arkansas
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The US state of Arkansas is part of the Bible Belt, and has its fair share of unpleasant laws, events and people to go with that. This is where the Little Rock Nine tried to go to school, and only succeeded after Dwight Eisenhower intervened militarily.
It is also the place where Wal-Mart began in 1972. FedEx, founded the previous year, moved out to Tennessee, where airport officials actually wanted to assist a new business, rather than obstruct it.
Arkansas is one of the poorest states; one quarter of children in Arkansas live in poverty.[1][2]
On the other hand, in 2014 Arkansas became the first state in the Southeast to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.[3]
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[edit] Famous Arkansasans (Arkansawyers? Arkansasians? Kansans of the Ark?)
- Maya Angelou (poet, autobiographtrix)
- Jim Bowie (knife maker)
- Glen Campbell (lonely lineman)
- Johnny Cash (man in black)
- Wesley Clark (presidential hopeful 2004)
- William Jefferson Clinton (presidential hopeful 1992, 1996)
- Al Green (some musician guy)
- John Grisham (tree killer)
- Mike Huckabee (presidential hopeful, 2008)
- Scott Joplin (King of Ragtime music)
- Alan Ladd (the prime reason George Lucas managed to produce Star Wars)
- Sonny Liston (box fighter)
- Douglas MacArthur (general fascist fighter and loser of North Korea)
- Billy Bob Thornton (actor)
[edit] Less famous ones
- Orval Faubus (bagga douche)
- Van Smith
[edit] See also
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For those of you in the mood, RationalWiki has a fun article about Arkansas. |
- McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education
- Text of Arkansas Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science Act
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ Arkansas: Second poorest state in the nation, ABC
- ↑ Child Poverty Rate in Arkansas is Second-Highest in the Nation, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
- ↑ Arkansas judge strikes down state ban on same-sex marriage, Reuters
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