NYT feature on Arkansas politics (but is it a rural story?)

Jonathan Martin reports for the New York Times, dateline Little Rock.  This is not ostensibly a rural story, but since many consider Arkansas a "rural state"--the New York Times periodically labels it as such--I'm mentioning the story here on Legal Ruralism.  The headline is "Why Arkansas Is a Test Case for a Post-Trump Republican Party."  Given the current state of play, I don't quite see anything to debate--it looks to me like Arkansas is as Trumpy as states get, with Sarah Huckabee Sanders the heir apparent to the governor's mansion.   That said, Governor Asa Hutchinson's predecessor was Democrat Mike Beebe, and a decade ago, the state still had U.S. Senators who were Democrats.  

The story's only explicit references to "rural" are here:  

What’s different about today is how much politics in a small, mostly rural state at the intersection of the Deep South, Midwest and Southwest is shaped by a figure who has almost certainly never let the phrase “Woo Pig Sooie” slip from his lips. [That's a reference to Donald Trump]

“Arkansas Republicanism is defined by President Trump right now,” said Trent Garner, a south Arkansas state lawmaker who defeated one of the remaining rural white Democrats when Mr. Trump was first elected.