I WANT TO REITERATE THAT NOT ALL OF ARKANSAS LOOKS LIKE THIS, just the countryside. Little Rock for instance is very nice and not redneck at all, as is Conway, Hot Springs, Northwest Arkansas, Benton, Fort Smith, Texarkana, Argenta, Eureka Springs, Hot Springs Village, parts of Russellville, El Darado, and Pine Bluff.
Case in point, a Little Rock thread I made a long time ago about a gay rights protest they had and I attended. There are many progressive people that live here also, its just that once you get outside of the towns, it looks pretty much like this. But heres the Little Rock thread, I have to be fair.
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=160983
Heres a picture of Little Rock I took back in 2008.