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Originally Posted by photolitherland
Dude, this is how it is around where I live, other parts of Arkansas arent so bad, but I live in the most republican and one of the lowest income counties in Arkansas. Its pretty damn redneck and if you dont believe that its like this than you should come down here. Once you get into the country, this is pretty much all you see, for real. I mean, I went driving around just for a few hours within like a 3 mile radius and took these photos, its not like exaggerated this. It is really this bad, believe me. As for the town of Russellville, it most certainly doesnt look this bad throughout, but the countryside is really this bad everywhere, at least around peoples homes. Now the actual uninhabited countryside is really very beautiful. But this is a depiction of where the people live.
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I've never been
to Russellville, but I've been through it. It's not noticeably different in culture from much the rest of the state that I'm fairly familiar with. That is to say that it's not visibly more backwards than most other parts. Arkansas is actually one of the more uniform states around in terms of how its culture is spread. If there is any depressing part of the state, though, it'd not be in the hills or the mountains, it'd be the flat, cotton-filled Delta part of the state in the east where you literally feel like you've gone back into time...in a bad way.
Really, I'm pretty familiar with much of the state (outside of the northwest), and I just think you're being overdramatic and unfair in your portrayal, that's all. The photography was
excellent; the commentary was poor and unnecessarily distracting. I guess what I'm saying is that it's probably better when we make photo threads to let other people judge for themselves what an area looks and feels like instead of poisioning the well at the very beginning by trying to convince people that have chosen to view the thread how horrible or how great an area's culture is. Furthermore, the portrayal is borderline trolling/inflammatory. If someone would have made a thread unironically titled "Detroit: Ghetto Wasteland" or "San Francisco: Liberal Wasteland" it'd have most likely been closed, so perhaps you want to rethink the title...
BTW, where are you from, originally?