"For her, one of the most difficult aspects of being Arkansas' first lady was the inevitable confrontation with some of the snobby elitists who had always been on the side of the culturally correct in Little Rock."

Really? There is a snotty elite in LITTLE ROCK? Really?

Actually there is, you know how you look down on the whole state, well a lot of educated elite Arkansans do that 20x over. They need to in order to diffrentiate themselves from the "yokels." These people have money, quite a bit of it actually, are usually educated back East, or at the very least consider themselves either "intellectuals" or were in the good frats and sororities in Fayetteville (home of the University of Arkansas). The very backward and hick nature of the state makes this almost inevitable.

In a way it is a pale imitation of the sort of snobbery that you see in Mississippi, Think of Faulkner, Walker Percy, Shelby Foote, in Oxford and Greenville, looking down on the white trash Snopes

Hmm...interesting. Oh, and I don't look down on the whole state....I do look down on someone who considers themselves part of a snobby elite in little rock. That is like the guy who was captain of the football team in high school and never lets you forget it.

you have 3 or more people. Small towns have it (think "Our Town" or "Winesburg, Ohio" in fiction for a couple of examples Read Huckelberry Finn to see snobbery in a very small place). Harry Truman's mother never thought Harry was good enough for his daughter, even after he was president (Independence, MO was not a large place).

Social standing is very big in small towns. Standing can be based on family, wealth, education (the right frat or sorority at the state U is very important), and other similar factors. Now, if you moved most of those people to Greenwich, CT or Beverly Hills, they wouldn't amount to squat.

Regarding Ark, I knew a couple from Pine Bluff. The couple regarded themselves as quite grand. Outside of Pine Bluff, however, they were pretty small potatoes.

I can very easily imagine what the Huckabees went through (the name sure could not have helped), and I admire them for it. I don't want him to be president, however.