Surely some good important things came from Alabama, what are they?
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There’s a Saturn V on display at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, but the people who made that facility important were born in Germany, not Alabama.
Alabama is 70% forest, beautiful to travel the back highways. Judging by the forestry activity I see, they must supply a huge chunk of lumber for the region.
Many, if not most, of the small towns are surprisingly nice, but the wealth gap is on full display. Not a fan of the big cities. Mobile and Birmingham are gross all around.
That’s a good thing in Alabama. What’s a good thing that came out of the state?
black betty?
Super Soakers were invented there.
Hell yeah.
It’s a place where men are men and pigs are nervous.
Alabama is all about family.
I Alabama a fast and furious like?
Alabama is the anus of the USA. And the great thing is that nearly everyone who lives there admits it
Alabama’s state slogan is “Thank God for Mississippi”, because they can at least point to one place where things are worse.
Can confirm. Had a guest jazz band director in college from ‘Bama and he would say things like “y’all play like you’re from Mississippi; can y’all not read music?!”
Yeah no Mississippi and Louisiana are definitely worse off than Alabama IMO. But it’s not a high bar
Around 14 days out of the whole year they have a pretty good football team.
That’s it.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
From Florida, ironically.
Started in the same city as Limp Bizkit
southern rock, the civil rights movement, and alabama white bbq sauce are the first things i think of.
White bbq sauce and being the focal point of racism seems apropos
and it’s even white from mayonnaise.
The heart of the civil rights movement
is that something to be proud of? “we oppressed our citizens to the point that a nationwide political movement was created to make us stop.”
Before things like meth and Trump, Gulf Shores was pretty cool. But I can’t imagine it’s kept up. I have visited southern Louisiana in the meantime, and it’s gone to hell in a handbasket.
The song is a George Wallace diss track.
To answer your question, a ton of the civil rights movements happened in Alabama.
…mainly because of all the other terrible shit happening in Alabama, but there’s no denying the progress that was made!
I think the song was supposed to be tongue in cheek, since it talks about Neil Young’s criticisms of Alabama at the time, and being indifferent towards political issues like their governor being shot
