The Arkansas (to pronounce: in English) is a State of the Southern the United States, surrounded in the west by the Oklahoma, in north by the Missouri, in the east by the Tennessee and the the Mississippi and in the south by the Texas and the Louisiana. Its capital is Little Rock.

History

The name of the State comes from the tribe of the Arkansa of the Indians Quapaws. It formed a territory since 1819, but became State only in 1836. It belonged to the States confederated of America of May 6th, 1861 until the end of the American Civil War in 1865.

Geography

Of a surface of 137  754 km ², Arkansas are populated of 2  673  400 inhabitants with the census of 2000. Its landscapes are diversified: in the North-West are the Boston Mountains and the Plateau Ozark, in the south the Ouachita Mountains, while the remainder of the State is composed of fertile low grounds who are used for the Agriculture. The various areas are separated by the Arkansas, an affluent of the the Mississippi, which form the border is State.

Arkansas contains several areas protected by the National Park System , of which:

  • the Arkansas Post National Memorial with Gillett
  • the National Buffalo To rivet
  • Strong National Smith Historic Site
  • Hot Springs National Park
  • Little Rock Exchange High School National Historic Site
  • Pea Ridge National Military Park

The Piste of the Tears crosses also the State.

Main cities

  • Little Rock 184.564 inhabitants
  • Strong Smith 82.481 inhabitants
  • Fayetteville 66.655 inhabitants
  • Jonesboro 59.358 inhabitants
  • North Little Rock 58.803 inhabitants
  • Prick Bluff 52.693 inhabitants

Policy

Formerly State secessionist, Arkansas was a segregationist State until the end of the Années 1960. It is a popular, very preserving State today and of democratic tradition . The democrats dominated the State and were, or certain are still, of the Dixiecrat S (democrats of the south, ultra-conservatives).

In 1967, Winthrop Rockefeller succeeded Dixiecrat Orval Faubus and became the first republican governor of Arkansas since 1874 and the end of the period of rebuilding which followed the American Civil War. Mike Huckabee is the third republican governor of Arkansas. Former lieutenant-governor elected in 1993, it succeeded in 1996 the democratic governor Jim Guy Tucker, pushed with the resignation for félonie within the framework of the scandal Whitewater. In November 2006, the democrat Mike Beebe is elected governor with 55% of the votes compared with 41% with the republican Asa Hutchinson. In 2007, all the other stations of the executive are also held by democrats.

At the local level, at the time of the legislature 2007 - 2008, the Senate of 35 members is composed of 27 democrats and 8 republicans and the Room of the representatives of 100 elected officials is composed of 75 democrats and 25 republicans.

At the federal level, the two senators are the democrats Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln and three of the four elected officials to the Chambre of the Representatives of the United States is democratic.

At the time of the presidential elections, until in 1964, Arkansas systematically voted for the democratic candidate whatever his geographic origin. In 1968, the voters of the State placed candidates at the head segregationist Dixiecrat George Wallace. In 1972, Richard Nixon was the first republican to gain Arkansas. Since, the voters of the State vote rather for candidates resulting from the south or West before voting for a democrat or a republican. The president Jimmy Carter, from the State Southerner of Georgia, obtained there to the majority of the votes in 1976 just like the democrat Bill Clinton, native, in 1992 and 1996. In 2004, the president George W. Bush, republican and texan, obtained there 54,31% of the votes compared with 44,55% with the democratic candidate John Kerry.

Administration

Arkansas counts 75 counties, to see Comtés of the State d' Arkansas.

Economy

Currently, of large head offices are in Arkansas, in particular Wal-Mart, Tyson, and J.B. Hunt. They are mainly in the North-West of the state. Thanks to these companies, the North-West becomes richer and more populated each year.

Culture

See too

External bonds

  • Official site of the state of Arkansas

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