Defeat and Revolt[]
Interesting article.The main problem I see with it is that two factions fight for eight years with fairly well defined lines until one defeated the other. four Years later, a revolt caused by 150 men is able to quickly topple the reigning power because of a huge slave uprising and the sudden descion of the wife of the Leader to finally reveal her leanings. It doesn't seem plausible that the wife would remain unsuspected for so long, that the group that fought for 8 years doesn't have a backup, and that the slaves rise up with greater power in 95 than 91
it wasn't just the 150 men from Joplin but several hundred abolitionists that attacked. It was not just the slaves that revolted by sympathetic whites as well. As for the wife is your the unlucky women married to some white trash redneck radical odds are you would be afraid to speak out. This women saw her chance as the town was being liberated.--GOPZACK 02:28, February 11, 2010 (UTC)
Population[]
I was doing some figuring as to the present population of Arkansas, as it is the next state up for the chart of "former US States." The This article has a small population for the whole Hot Springs area, but the figures for the whole state - assuming all the targets were totally destroyed, would leave over 750,000 people in the less populated areas throughout the state. I am assuming a 1983 population of around 2.3 million, then eliminating completely the populations of the targeted metro areas (800,000 killed), and then a disasterous period where half of all Arkansans die, leaving 750,000. Over two decades, I'd figure that there would be a population increase of at least 1% a year, you'd get 762,000 in the state by now. If Hot Springs only has 18,000 (about half of OTL today), then where did the other 754,000 go? {the 'Population Nazi'} SouthWriter 01:14, March 30, 2010 (UTC)
I see that you changed the population of Hot Springs (the successor state for Arkansas) to the full 762,000 that I suggested. I thank you for your confidence, but perhaps some of these would have migrated to other population centers. One that comes to mind is Joplin, to the northwest of the northern counties. Some of the southern Akansans may have migrated to Monroe, LA. Accounting for some towns under the influence and/or protection of these neighboring cities, perhaps a figure of around 435,000 would suffice for Hot Springs itself. Of the remaining 327,000, perhaps half would have remained within the bounds of the former state, leaving arround 598,500 to be counted as "residing" in what used to be Arkansas. SouthWriter 19:57, March 30, 2010 (UTC)
Mt.Monah?[]
Hi, Zack. I'm working on doing something with Pine Bluff and Hope Arkansas and was going to work around Hot Springs. In reading of the strife in Hot Springs, I come across "Mt. Monah," apparently a fictious hill to go along with your ficticious war among Arkansans. Can you identify this local landmark for us, so I can know just where all the fighting was going on.
By the way, Hope is the next county over from Prescott (in Arizona county, of course), and is within the "boundaries" of the "state" of Hot Springs. If the Arkansas article is to stand, and my article on Hope to continue, those boundaries probably need to be withdrawn a litte. SouthWriter 21:21, April 25, 2011 (UTC)
Hope is in this area of Arkansas. Not sure what the reference to Arizona was for.
- I just thought it neat that Prescott is in Arizona COUNTY, LG. Appropriate, I suppose, but neat none the less. SouthWriter
It seems that the Arkansas article was in part written without a close look at this article and the Kentucky article. As both of the others came first, the Arkansas article should be redone.
Lordganon 05:55, April 26, 2011 (UTC)
Adoption request[]
If nobody has any objections, I'd like to adopt this page. The Talk page for the larger former state of Arkansas has some very interesting story ideas regarding the Clintons there that were never implemented, but don't seem to contradict established canon. I'd like to possibly see if I can implement some of those ideas in a way that fits canon. GryffindorKrypton (talk) 02:45, April 3, 2020 (UTC)GryffindorKrypton