14 Things You’ve Grown To Undeniably Hate If You’re From Arkansas

Okay, okay—maybe Arkansas isn’t perfect. To be fair, no place really is. You learn to love a lot in the Natural State, but there are certain things you learn to hate too. From awful stereotypes to bugs to dialect-haters, here’s a list of things Arkansans have learned to hate:

1. “Ain’t ain’t a word.”

Can you say it out loud and make yourself understood? Then yes, it’s a word.

2. People who make fun of our accents

It’s a dialect, honey. And there ain’t nothin’ wrong with natural-born country dialect.

3. Allergy season

Pollen, mold, all the allergens—they’re trying to kill us.

4. Storm season

It is pretty scary.

5. Summer

It’s too hot. It just gets too hot. And the sun—it burns us.

6. Humidity

It doesn’t matter the season, the humidity here is real. And it is ridiculous. Plus, stuff gets moldy.

7. Ice storms

We have a lot of trees. Ice plus trees equals not cool at all. Just not cool, ice.

8. Northwest Arkansas traffic

It’s just the worst.

9. Central Arkansas traffic

No, Little Rock traffic is the worst.

10. Oklahoma

I was wrong before, Oklahoma is the worst. Not just the turnpikes. The entire state.

11. Mosquitoes

12. Ticks and chiggers

13. Politics

We’re a topsy-turvy political landscape, more diverse than people think. And we’re tired of talking about it.

14. The barefoot-and-pregnant, ignorant, toothless, everyone-is-a-racist, people-of-Walmart, hillbilly stereotypes

Come down here and say that to our faces.

What about you? Is there anything you've learned to hate in your time here? Let us know!