RE: Adsactly Education - Arkansas
I find your posts on the states of the USA, @bigtom13, very instructive. They are very complete in their information. I see again that, curiously, the name of this also has its origin in an indigenous word, which speaks of the preponderance that such ethnic groups or tribes had in the territory. Although later the colonizers and later inhabitants have assumed the marginalization or mistreatment of such towns. What I knew about the states of the "Deep South" comes to me from William Faulkner's novel (of course, he was from Mississippi) and certain films that deal with stories -mostly terrible- that occur on plantations, and there you can appreciate the hard life of those swampy spaces, black slavery, intolerance and racial segregation. His photos are very illustrative. Thank you for this post, and also @adsactly for offering it.
Thank you for the kind words!
Arkansas was particularly thorough in their forced removal of the natives and was completely dominated politically by the planters. That led to some just bloody in state fighting, particularly once the Mississippi fell to the Union. There were far more killed and wounded in the guerrilla fighting than actual battles in Arkansas. This was a deep south place, and in some ways still is.