Leveling the Playing Field

A discussion of the roots of Ozark rural resistance to federalist authority. Join us as we interview historian J. Blake Perkins about the history of populist defiance in Arkansas. Though quite different from the current conservative popularism of today's rural Arkansas sects, the historic tradition of anti-government sentiment in this region is explored in Perkins' book Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks published by the University of Illinois Press. During