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:
- “Ain’t ain’t a word.”
Flickr/takomabiblebelt Can you say it out loud and make yourself understood? Then yes, it’s a word.
- People who make fun of our accents
Flickr/D.Fajio It’s a dialect, honey. And there ain’t nothin’ wrong with natural-born country dialect.
- Allergy season
Flickr/Alastair Vance Pollen, mold, all the allergens—they’re trying to kill us.
- Storm season
Flickr/Tabatha Kaylee Hawk It is pretty scary.
- Summer
Flickr/Phil Kates It’s too hot. It just gets too hot. And the sun—it burns us.
- Humidity
Flickr/Nannydaddy It doesn’t matter the season, the humidity here is real. And it is ridiculous. Plus, stuff gets moldy.
- Ice storms
Flickr/Tom Hapgood We have a lot of trees. Ice plus trees equals not cool at all. Just not cool, ice.
- Northwest Arkansas traffic
Flickr/BJ Rush It’s just the worst.
- Central Arkansas traffic
Flickr/David Hartwell No, Little Rock traffic is the worst.
- Oklahoma
Flickr/Lobstar28 I was wrong before, Oklahoma is the worst. Not just the turnpikes. The entire state.
- Mosquitoes
Flickr/Sanofi Pasteur
- Ticks and chiggers
Flickr/Fairfax County
- Politics
Flickr/ Stephen Melkisethian We’re a topsy-turvy political landscape, more diverse than people think. And we’re tired of talking about it.
- The barefoot-and-pregnant, ignorant, toothless, everyone-is-a-racist, people-of-Walmart, hillbilly stereotypes
Flickr/Michael Coppola 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!
Flickr/takomabiblebelt
Can you say it out loud and make yourself understood? Then yes, it’s a word.
Flickr/D.Fajio
It’s a dialect, honey. And there ain’t nothin’ wrong with natural-born country dialect.
Flickr/Alastair Vance
Pollen, mold, all the allergens—they’re trying to kill us.
Flickr/Tabatha Kaylee Hawk
It is pretty scary.
Flickr/Phil Kates
It’s too hot. It just gets too hot. And the sun—it burns us.
Flickr/Nannydaddy
It doesn’t matter the season, the humidity here is real. And it is ridiculous. Plus, stuff gets moldy.
Flickr/Tom Hapgood
We have a lot of trees. Ice plus trees equals not cool at all. Just not cool, ice.
Flickr/BJ Rush
It’s just the worst.
Flickr/David Hartwell
No, Little Rock traffic is the worst.
Flickr/Lobstar28
I was wrong before, Oklahoma is the worst. Not just the turnpikes. The entire state.
Flickr/Sanofi Pasteur
Flickr/Fairfax County
Flickr/ Stephen Melkisethian
We’re a topsy-turvy political landscape, more diverse than people think. And we’re tired of talking about it.
Flickr/Michael Coppola
Come down here and say that to our faces.
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