Arkansans pride themselves on being scrappy and down-to-earth. We’re an honest people, but we’re also proud. Here are a few things you’d have to really twist our arms to get us to say out loud. (Just beware, we’ll probably twist your arms back.)

1. We’ll pretend we can conquer anything, but cities make us uncomfortable.
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But where are the trees though? And why are there so many people?
2. Flat land is unsettling.
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But mountains? Hills? What even is this? Why would anyone want to see this far? (Unless you're from the delta, in which case, welcome home.)
3. Trailer houses aren’t so bad. In fact, some of them are really nice.
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Make fun of them at your own peril.
4. Some of us don’t like the outdoors.
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5. Some jokes about Arkansas are funny.
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And what's so wrong with the hillbilly stereotype, anyway? Scrappy? Independent? Able to grow one's own food? Well, yeah.
6. Oklahoma really isn’t that bad.
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Some of it is kind of like West Arkansas.
7. We love them anyway, but sometimes the Razorbacks just aren’t very good.
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8. Some of us don’t like football.
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9. We accidentally killed a good snake in the garden and we feel bad.
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10. Horrible shoeless stereotype aside, it really is nice to feel the grass between our toes. So yeah, we do go barefoot.
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11. There are probably too many Walmart locations.
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12. “Bless your heart” doesn’t always mean what it seems to mean. Bless our hearts, sometimes we mean you’re a great big dummy.
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Bless this little heart’s hanging threads.
13. Flash floods are scary.
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14. Tornadoes are also scary.
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15. We don’t duck and cover for every tornado warning.
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16. It’s not that we can’t drive in winter weather, it’s that we don’t want to.
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17. Someone might make better gravy than we do.
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We don’t know that person, but it is possible that said person exists.
18. It doesn’t make sense to call all carbonated drinks Coke.
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Rest assured, Arkansas, we can keep all these things just between us. Would you ever say these things out loud? Is there anything else we left off the list?

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