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| | |  Arkansas - Economy: Encyclopedia II - Arkansas - EconomyThe state's total gross state product for 2003 was $76 billion. Its Per Capita Personal Income for 2003 was $24,384, 50th in the nation. The state's agriculture outputs are poultry and eggs, soybeans, sorghum, cattle, cotton, rice, hogs, and milk. Its industrial outputs are food processing, electric equipment, fabricated metal products, machinery, paper products, bromine, and vanadium.
In recent years, automobile parts manufacturers have opened factories in eastern Arkansas to support auto plants in other states (though Ark ...
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| | | | Arkansas - Economy: Encyclopedia II - Arkansas - Economy The state's total gross state product for 2003 was $76 billion. Its Per Capita Personal Income for 2003 was $24,384, 50th in the nation. The state's agriculture outputs are poultry and eggs, soybeans, sorghum, cattle, cotton, rice, hogs, and milk. Its industrial outputs are food processing, electric equipment, fabricated metal products, machinery, paper products, bromine, and vanadium.
In recent years, automobile parts manufacturers have opened factories in eastern Arkansas to support auto plants in other states (though Ark ...
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| | | | Arkansas - Economy: Encyclopedia II - Arkansas - History The early French explorers of the state gave it its name, which is probably a phonetic spelling for the French word for "downriver" people, a reference to the Quapaw people and the river along which they settled. Other Native American nations living in present-day Arkansas were Caddo, Cherokee and Osage Nations.
On June 15, 1836, Arkansas became the 25th state of the United States as a slave state. Arkansas refused to join the Confederate States of America until after Abraham Lincoln called for troops to invade South Carolina. It sece ...
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| | | | Arkansas - Economy: Encyclopedia II - Arkansas - History The early French explorers of the state gave it its name, which is probably a phonetic spelling for the French word for "downriver" people, a reference to the Quapaw people and the river along which they settled. Other Native American nations living in present-day Arkansas were Caddo, Cherokee and Osage Nations.
On June 15, 1836, Arkansas became the 25th state of the United States as a slave state. Arkansas refused to joinn the Confederate States of America until after Abraham Lincoln called for troops to invade South Carolina. It sec ...
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| | | | Arkansas - Economy: Encyclopedia II - Arkansas - Geography See: List of Arkansas counties, List of cities in Arkansas, List of Arkansas townships.
The capital of Arkansas is Little Rock. Arkansas is the only state in the US where diamonds are found naturally (near Murfreesboro, Arkansas).
The eastern border for most of Arkansas is the Mississippi River except in Clay and Greene counties where the St. Francis River forms the western boundary of the Missouri Bootheel. Arkansas shares its southern border with Louisiana, its northern border with Missouri, its eastern border with Ten ...
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| | | | Arkansas - Economy: Encyclopedia II - Arkansas - Demographics As of 2005, Arkansas has an estimated population of 2,779,154, which is an increase of 29,154, or 1.1%, from the prior year and an increase of 105,756, or 4.0%, since the year 2000. This includes a natural increase since the last census of 52,214 people (that is 198,800 births minus 146,586 deaths) and an increase due to net migration of 57,611 people into the state. Immigration from outside the United States resulted in a net increase of 21,947 people, and mi ...
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Arkansas - Centers of research.
Arkansas Cherokee Indian Research
Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center website
National Center for Toxicological Research website
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University of Arkansas at Little Rock
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| | | | Arkansas - Economy: Encyclopedia II - Arkansas - Geography See: List of Arkansas counties, List of cities in Arkansas, List of Arkansas townships.
The capital of Arkansas is Little Rock. Arkansas is the only state in the US where diamonds are found naturally (near Murfreesboro, Arkansas).
The eastern border for most of Arkansas is the Mississippi River except in Clay and Greene counties where the St. Francis River forms the western boundary of the Missouri Bootheel. Arkansas shares its southern border with Louisiana, its northern border with Missouri, its eastern border with Ten ...
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| | | | Arkansas - Economy: Encyclopedia II - Arkansas - Law and government The current governor of Arkansas is Mike Huckabee, a Republican. Huckabee, who had been elected lieutenant governor in a 1993 special election, became governor in 1996 when Governor Jim Guy Tucker, a Democrat, was convicted as part of the Whitewater Scandal. This led to a state "Constitutional crisis" when Tucker refused to give up the governor's office for a short period of time, because the Arkansas Constitution does not allow a convicted felon to be governor of the state. Tucker had been lieutenant governor under Bill Clinton and had become governor as a ...
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| | | | Arkansas - Economy: Encyclopedia II - Arkansas - Law and government The current governor of Arkansas is Mike Huckabee, a Republican. Mike Huckabee, who had been elected lieutenant governor in a 1993 special election, ascended to the governor's office in 1996 when Governor Jim Guy Tucker, a Democrat, was convicted as part of the Whitewater Scandal. This led to a state "Constitutional crisis" when Tucker refused to give up the governor's office for a short period of time, because the Arkansas Constitution does not allow a convicted felon to be governor of the state. Tucker had been lieutenant governor under Bill Clinton and had become governor as a ...
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| | | | Arkansas - Economy: Encyclopedia II - Arkansas - Demographics As of 2003, the state's population was 2,725,714 according to Census Bureau estimates.
48.8% is male, and 51.2% is female.
Racially, Arkansas is:
78.6% White non-Hispanic
15.7% Black
3.2% Hispanic
0.8% Asian
0.7% Native American
1.3% Mixed race
The five largest ancestry groups in the state are: American (15.9%), African American (15.7%), Irish (9.5%), German (9.3%), English (7.9%).
People of American ancestry have a strong presence in the northwester ...
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| | | | Arkansas - Economy: Encyclopedia II - Arkansas - Education and Research centers
Arkansas - Centers of Research.
Arkansas Cherokee Indian Research
Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center website
National Center for Toxicological Research website
Arkansas - Colleges and universities.
University of Arkansas System
University of Arkansas
University of Arkansas - Fort Smith
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
University of Arkansas ...
See also:Arkansas, Arkansas - History, Arkansas - Historical References, Arkansas - Primary Sources, Arkansas - Law and government, Arkansas - State symbols, Arkansas - Geography, Arkansas - Interstate highways, Arkansas - United States highways, Arkansas - Major Arkansas highways, Arkansas - Economy, Arkansas - Demographics, Arkansas - Religion, Arkansas - Important cities and towns, Arkansas - Education and Research centers, Arkansas - Centers of Research, Arkansas - Colleges and universities Read more here: » Arkansas: Encyclopedia II - Arkansas - Education and Research centers |
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