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 Liberal Place: Fayetteville, AR
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 Despite being surrounded by liberally-unfriendly cities like Springfield,
Missouri and Tulsa, Oklahoma- Fayetteville, Arkansas, home of the University
of Arkansas stands out as a fairly liberal city for this part of the country.
With an active arts community, liberal free press, coffehouse scene and
numerous clubs catering to
hippies and frats alike, Fayetteville is a breath of fresh air amid the
stench of the chicken farms dotting the nearby countryside.
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Fayetteville, Arkansas city council voted to pass a human dignity resolution,
Mayor Hanna, a right-wing religious zealot vetoed the resolution, the same
folks over-rode his veto, but University Baptist church was called in to help
the mayor sustain the veto. When that failed UBC and some other right wing
religious churches has promised they will turn out the "Liberal" city council,
put zealots in their place and have the christian folks vote to remove the
Human dignity resoultion, Fayetteville might be off your list real soon if the
zealots gain control of the city council..
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Fayetteville will remain a liberal and progressive community thanks to the
U. of A. and the quality of people drawn to our lifestyle here. That's not
to say we may ever have a progressive Mayor because the power structure is
so entrenched. There seems to have always been an identity crisis between
our town and its government.
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Don't kid yourselves. Fayetteville only looks progressive because of
its proximity to the knuckle-scuffers in Tulsa, OK and Benton County,
AR. The local Democratic Party organization failed to lift a finger in
support of the human dignity resolution; heck, they barely lifted a
finger to help Sen. Blanche Lincoln defeat a truly scary Christian Wrong
opponent. Why? Too many of them were eager to stay in the good social
graces of the UBC/Immanuel Baptist/Wal-Mart exec set. Those gays were
just too tacky and gauche for demanding basic civil liberties, I guess.
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