In a state that would reflect McGovern's national results, the Democratic nominee did not win a single county in Arkansas. This marked the first time that Arkansas had voted Republican in a presidential election since Ulysses S. Grant carried the state in 1872, and made Nixon only the second Republican (after Grant) to ever carry the state. , this remains the strongest ever Republican presidential performance in Arkansas, the only time that a Republican has swept every county in the state, and the last presidential election in which the Republican carried Phillips County, Jefferson County, Lee County, Chicot County, and Desha County in a presidential election.Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
