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Hype for the Future 169P: Southwest Arkansas
Introduction The State of Arkansas is a notable state in the United States of America, effectively at the crossroads of the Upland South, the Deep South, and the Gulf South, albeit to different extents. While the State of Arkansas is not typically identified as part of the American West, largely because the entirety of the state is associated with a more humid type of climate influenced by the Gulf of Mexico to the south and the Great Lakes to the north (to a significantly lesser extent), […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/04/18/hype-for-the-future-169p-southwest-arkansas/
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@Mickft @ReggieHere @thecasualcritic @ChrisMayLA6 Those were indeed some of the immediate post-1997 points of disagreement.
But fundamentally, Blair had a stonking majority in the Commons, and calculated that he no longer needed to make concessions to the LibDems, who most of his party hate. The LibDem party grew increasingly hostile to "The Project", and as #Ashdown's star waned, Charles Kennedy's opposition to Blair propelled him to the top.
The Project was just a Blair–Ashdown bromance
