LITTLE ROCK, Ark (Reuters) - The image of barefoot mountain hillbillies has made many Arkansans cringe for decades. But it's a hard one to shake -- even though the state produced a two-term president ...

Robin William Burn was born Aug. 2, 1890, in west Arkansas. Some say he was born in Van Buren. Others say he was born at Greenwood and moved with his family to Van Buren when he was 3. He would become ...

Arkansas, particularly in the mountainous regions, has often been criticized as being the home of the oft-caricatured hillbilly. The hillbilly of lore is lazy, shoeless, and, due to a lack of indoor ...

When the word "hillbilly" was used, many folks across the country once thought of Arkansas. I invoked the hillbilly image in this column last Sunday when writing about the bad name our politicians ...