Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Arkansas shares a border with six states, with its eastern border largely defined by the Mississippi River. Its diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozarks and the Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River. The capital and most populous city is Little Rock, located in the central portion of the state.
The name Arkansas is a French pronunciation of a Quapaw word meaning "land of downriver people". The pronunciation "arkansaw" was made official by an act of the state legislature in 1881.
The Little Rock-North Little Rock-Pine Bluff Combined Statistical Area had 829,032 people in the 2006 census estimates and is the largest in Arkansas.
The comic strip starred Li'l Abner Yokum, a dumb, obstinate, strong, and good-natured hillbilly. Abner lived at home with his parents, Pansy ("Mammy") and Lucifer ("Pappy") Yokum. Abner inherited his strength from the irascible Mammy, who dominated her family through the force of her personality, and dominated her foes with a knockout punch.
Abner's main goal in life was evading the marital designs of Daisy Mae Scragg, his beautiful and faithful girlfriend, and scion of the Yokums' feudal enemies, the Scraggs. For eighteen years, Abner slipped out of Daisy Mae's clutches time and again.
Capp finally gave in to reader pressure in 1952 and allowed the couple to marry. This was a major media event, and the happy couple even made the cover of Life on March 31, 1952, illustrating an article by Capp titled, "It's Hideously True!! The Creator of Li'l Abner Tells Why His Hero Is (SOB!) Wed".
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