Hey, I was there last month. I found Arkansas ppl to be conservative minded, friendly, usually dressed in camo, and straight.... At least the rural types were.
I was at Petit Jean, which is about 10 mi east of Nebo. Maybe Nebo is the peak I went up. You look at it from down in the bottom and think damn, I'm going up there?
It was part of a route I took diagonally across AR from Pocahontas to Texarkana.
In Petit Jean, they pronounce the name various ways. Some people there pronounce it like "pa-zhawn," in the French way. Others there pronounce it "Pet it Gene."