How a rightwing machine stopped Arkansas's ballot to roll back one of the strictest abortion bans

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4. My grandparents moved to Arkansas because it was warmer and cheaper there

They moved to the NW because it wasn't as backward as the rest of the state was back then (1950). They were Republicans because my grandmother was an American-born German who was pissed off because Woodrow Wilson had made the teaching of her first language illegal during WWI and she had to subsequently change her first name because of it. My grandfather was a Republican because he was a gung-ho VFW type and was from a town near D. D. Eisenhower's adopted hometown of Abilene, Kansas. Also, Republicans in NW Arkansas, at least, were far more progressive back then than they are now. My late mom once told me that her parents would not have supported what the GOP has become.