In Arkansas they don't even ask.

But yeah, what's the matter with Arkansas?

This kind of Arkansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, West Virginia region.

This piece was great. This is in my parents' backyard in Arkansas.

They made a donation to an organization based in Arkansas called Heifer International.

Yes Bill Clinton was from Arkansas, but these are very, very profound differences.

So, when we think about parts of the country like Arkansas, you know.

And when we think of Arkansas we tend to have pretty negative connotations.

Yale University organized a symposium on The Future of Rice Biotechnology Scientific Advances and Policy Issues , while in Arkansas, a time capsule which was sealed in 1954 at the Carlisle Elementary School to commemorate the first Arkansas rice crop was opened in October to celebrate the International Year of Rice and the centennial of rice cultivation in Arkansas.

Are we kind of stigmatizing people from Arkansas, and this part of the country?

Just because you are born in rural Arkansas, whatever, that doesn't define who you are.

Is it just about some weird stuff that goes on in Arkansas that we don't understand, and Kentucky?

And the thing about states like Arkansas and Tennessee is that they're both very rural, and they are educationally impoverished.

We went to Brazil. We went to China and to India, to Bentonville, Arkansas, to Washington, D.C. and to Sacramento.

I grew up in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road in rural Arkansas, an hour from the nearest movie theater.

Literally there are people who might be in school in Arkansas or Tennessee and might never interact in a positive affirmative way with someone from another part of the country, or of another racial group.

But frankly there are enough differences within the country now where maybe you can take a bunch of kids from NYU, have them go study for a semester at the University of Arkansas, and vice versa. Do it at the high school level.

In the case of Charles Singleton, a Federal Appeals Court ruled that it was lawful to induce a death row inmate to take medication, a consequence of which would be his reaching a level of sanity to enable the execution to take place, and he was executed in Arkansas in April 2004.