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Held by selmabridge under the Civil Rights flag, for $15.
“You teach the march and ban the book about it. We have crossed harder bridges”
selmabridge paid $15 to put that there.
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The place
Joined 1819 · 22nd state · Confederate in the Civil War · Central time
Alabama runs on three currents that rarely mix in public: the Black Belt and its cotton money, the steel furnaces that made Birmingham a city almost overnight, and the rocket engineers who arrived in Huntsville and never left. It is where the modern civil rights movement found its footing, in Montgomery and Selma and the Sixteenth Street church, and the state has been arguing with that inheritance ever since. Go for the barbecue and the Gulf beaches at Orange Beach, but the thing worth your time is the Civil Rights Trail, which is honest in a way state history usually is not.
Its constitution is the longest in the world, roughly forty times the length of the federal one.
Eat
Whole hog with white sauce
Drink
Good People Brewing
Listen
Alabama Shakes
Bird
Yellowhammer
Flower
Camellia
Tree
Longleaf pine
Grows
Cotton, Peanuts, Poultry
The actual state · 2025
- Population
- 5,193,088
- Land area
- 50,651 mi²
- GDP per head
- $65,694
- Median household
- $66,704
- Joined
- Joined 1819
- Civil War
- Confederate
Largest cities
- 1Huntsville230K
- 2Mobile201K
- 3Birmingham196K
- 4Montgomery196K
- 5Tuscaloosa114K
Race
- White67.3%
- Black25.9%
- Two or more3.9%
Hispanic or Latino6.5%
Counted across all races, so it overlaps the figures above.
1 claim
First blood in Alabama: selmabridge, Civil Rights, $15.
“You teach the march and ban the book about it. We have crossed harder bridges”
· $15