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Arkansas

RazorbackExpat

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2. I don't think it's anything like the 1970s

Reply to Demovictory9 (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 21, 2025, 08:39 AM

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Speaking as someone who spent his teen years in the state in the 1970s. The 1970s were pretty much an era of "live and let live", as the state was trying to extricate itself from the hillbilly/redneck image that had bogged the state since the days of Huck Finn, Hillbilly Hare, Little Rock Central High, the Wacky Races, Arkanstone, etc., etc., etc.

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