Democrats have controlled the state legislature of Arkansas since the "Redeemers" drove out the Republicans at the end of Reconstruction. There has NEVER been a Republican majority in the legislature except during the brief Reconstruction period. After 128 years of uninterrupted Democratic leadership, Arkansas ranks last in almost every category that matters. The most prosperous counties in the state are the heavily Republican counties of the northwest. The schoolchildren of those counties also tend to do better on the SAT 9 and Benchmark tests.
The poorest counties are in the exclusively Democratic counties of the east, southeast, and southern counties. These counties have voting populations consisting mainly of the poor and the elderly.
I don't think the country needs to be controlled by a party whose ideas of service is establishing more programs designed to addict more people to government largesse.
Regards, Shuckins