[grmasterb]

Originally Posted by bchris02

He could be in Fort Smith. Most people there are still using fax machines and typewriters and have a phobia of computers. I worked at an electronics retailer there for 4 years so I saw it every day.

The really creepy ones are the ones who refuse to own a computer or surf the web because they believe it's possessed by Satan.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by grmasterb

The really creepy ones are the ones who refuse to own a computer or surf the web because they believe it's possessed by Satan.

yep there are a lot of those people around here, the same ones that marry their cousins, park their pick up on the front lawn and still have outside plumbing.

[acfg59]

Someone said that a couple opened a Wiccan bookstore in Jonesboro, and they got run out of town. I agree, ScarnBarre - anyone who disassociates from others because they are gay-friendly, black, foreign, women in leadership, support indoor plumbing, outsider artists, or people of other religions, DESERVE their backward stereotype. I know there are bad people in all areas, but they seem concentrated in some areas more than others.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by acfg59

Someone said that a couple opened a Wiccan bookstore in Jonesboro, and they got run out of town. I agree, ScarnBarre - anyone who disassociates from others because they are gay-friendly, black, foreign, women in leadership, support indoor plumbing, outsider artists, or people of other religions, DESERVE their backward stereotype. I know there are bad people in all areas, but they seem concentrated in some areas more than others.

oh for heavens sake, do you believe everything you hear? And what is this about anyone who dissassociates himself/herself from other, bla, bla,bla? Where did that come into this?

Nita

[jenni-b]

Well, actually that did happen in Jonesboro, some years ago. I don't know what the situation is there now.

That's just one town, though, not all of Arkansas. I know of several wiccan/pagan shops in Little Rock and Hot Springs, and I'm sure they exist in other towns as well.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by jenni-b

Well, actually that did happen in Jonesboro, some years ago. I don't know what the situation is there now.

That's just one town, though, not all of Arkansas. I know of several wiccan/pagan shops in Little Rock and Hot Springs, and I'm sure they exist in other towns as well.

Thanks Jenni, and you are right, that is one small town. We can find similar situations in every state of the union, even liberal California

Nita

[northbound74]

Whether or not the more recent transplants want to admit it, a lot of the stereotypes about Arkansas exist for a reason. Not everyone lives up to those generalizations, but many do.
The incident in Jonesboro is not an isolated one. That kind of stuff happens all over the state, but probably to a lesser extent in certain neighborhoods in Little Rock and pockets of the northwest.

[cuba libre]

Democrats are freightened of Arkansas because a former white Republican was able to garner 48% of the black vote when he ran for the governor's office...

(Mike Huckabee)

[DC at the Ridge]

Originally Posted by northbound74

Whether or not the more recent transplants want to admit it, a lot of the stereotypes about Arkansas exist for a reason. Not everyone lives up to those generalizations, but many do.
The incident in Jonesboro is not an isolated one. That kind of stuff happens all over the state, but probably to a lesser extent in certain neighborhoods in Little Rock and pockets of the northwest.

Stereotypes or not, when someone opens a shop, don't they normally do so because the demographics show there might be a demand for their products. If the demographics don't show potential customers, are you opening the shop to make a political statement?

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by northbound74

Whether or not the more recent transplants want to admit it, a lot of the stereotypes about Arkansas exist for a reason. Not everyone lives up to those generalizations, but many do.
The incident in Jonesboro is not an isolated one. That kind of stuff happens all over the state, but probably to a lesser extent in certain neighborhoods in Little Rock and pockets of the northwest.

I am sure you are right, but times are changing and there are incidents like that everywhere in our country as well as other countries. Prejudices are often hard to forget. As for some of us who are new or newer to the state, it isn't a matter of admitting anything, it is a matter of seeing, for ourselves the changes that are occurring. Actually we are probably better judges than those who have spent their entire lives here, because too many who have lived here for generations only remember the bad, they are not looking for the improvements and the good.

Nita