Arkansas ranks #1 in producing over half of the nation's rice and Arkansas leads in bromine production and also Arkansas ranks consistently at the top for cost of living value as well as inbound migration.
Arkansas produces roughly 50% of all the rice that is grown in the United States and Arkansas also frequently leads or even ranks at the very top for commercial broiler chicken production.
For mineral and natural resources, Arkansas ranks highly for bromine, diamonds and quartz and silica stone.
Arkansas is a leading national source for natural abrasive silica stone and is home to the Crater of Diamonds State park, which is the only active diamond producing mine in the United States.
And Arkansas also accounts for a huge and massive share of domestic and global production of bromine.
Arkansas is also ranked #1 for inbound migration and new residents moving into the state of Arkansas in recent multi-year relocation data.
Arkansas is located in the southern part of the United States and is a landlocked state in the West South Central region in the Southern United States and Arkansas borders Missouri to the north and Mississippi River, Mississippi and Tennessee to the East.
The Capital of Arkansas is Little Rock, Arkansas.
What Arkansas has that no other state has is an active and public diamond mine, in which visitors to the active, public diamond mine in Arkansas can search for and even keep real diamonds that they find.
The unique Arkansas active, public diamond mine is located in the Crater of Diamond's State Park that is located in Murfreesboro Arkansas.
The Crater of Diamonds State Park is a public diamond mine that sits on a 37-acre eroded volcanic crater.
Visitors pay a small admission fee (around $15.00 for adults) to dig and keep any gems they discover.
Arkansas is also the only state whose exact pronunciation was officially set by its state legislature to end the debate over whether it rhymes with Kansas.
Maple-Leaf Oak, which is a rare tree species grows exclusively in the rocky woods of Arkansas and nowhere else in the world.
Arkansas is also solidly a "right" state and not a left state.
The state of Arkansas being solidly a "right" state means that Arkansas is a (Republican/conservative) state.
Although Arkansas has historically voted for Democratic candidates throughout most of the 20th century, Arkansas has also undergone a massive political shift over the last couple of decades and is also now considered to be one of the most reliably conservative strongholds in the country.
The state of Arkansas also features a Republican trifecta and triplex, which means that the GOP also holds absolute control over the state of Arkansas's highest offices.
Governor: Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Republican)
State Senate: Supermajority control held by Republicans (29–6)
State House: Supermajority control held by Republicans (81–19)
U.S. Congress: Every member of Arkansas's federal congressional delegation (both Senators and all four Representatives) is a Republican.
Presidential Voting History of Arkansas include:
The 270toWin Arkansas Voting History shows that the state has voted for the Republican presidential nominee in every single election since 2000.
In the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump carried the state by nearly 31 percentage points over Kamala Harris.
The last Democrats to win the state's electoral votes were native son Bill Clinton in 1996 and Jimmy Carter in 1976.
Detailed historical data and tracking on these shifts can be viewed on Ballotpedia's Arkansas Voting Trends.