KUAR | By Matthew Moore
For decades, beginning in 1874, Arkansas was a one-party state. And that party was the Democratic party. Governor, state assembly, land commissioner, U.S. Senate… nearly every elected official in the state was a Democrat.
“There’s one exception in the state of Arkansas, beginning in the 1960s.”
That’s John C. Davis, the executive director of the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History and the author of From Blue to Red: the rise of the GOP in Arkansas.
Democrat challenges incumbent in Northwest Arkansas' 3rd Congressional District
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