A place where you can grow up without getting up every morning to pay your parking meter and get stuck in traffic for 3 hours. A place where your kids can grow up in a small town where everybody knows everybody. A place where we are all family, we take care of each other. Alabama gets criticized everyday because we are so called "red necks" but we aren't. Sure we love fried chicken, have a southern accent, respect our elders, open the door for a complete stranger, carry groceries for a elderly person, visit our neighbors, love football, love NASCAR, take care of our family, and we like country music. But how does that make us a bad state? I'm proud to live in Alabama and I don't care who knows it!

Alabama is a southern state squished between Mississippi and Georgia. There are a few nicknames for Alabama, such as: Yellow Hammer State, Heart of Dixie, and the Cotton State. It's motto is "Audemus jura nostra defendere," which is Latin for "We dare defend our rights."

The largest city (by land area) in Alabama is Huntsville, and the largest Metropolitan statistical area is the greater Birmingham area. Alabama was admitted into the union on December 14, 1819, it was the twenty second state to enter the union.

Alabama is considered to be an illiterate state, filled to the brim with incest and racist rednecks carrying guns. As you've probably already noticed, Alabama is a state with people in it. Like, real people. People that make decisions for them selves and their families. But, not every person in Alabama is the same.

Alabama does not have the best education system, but I've heard their working on it. Alabama is full of a lot of old people (I'm serious, I think the water is magic down there) and they still carry the same beliefs they were raised with. So yeah, the old people are a pretty racist so they raised their kids with severely biased opinions. But the generation of young people now aren't that bad, sure there are plenty of people with their own differing opinions, but that's their opinions not the whole population of the state.

home of the hottest females in the nation. Best football state. Shitty educational system. Constant recipient of stupid hick jokes by people who have no clue what they're talking about and have never so much as kissed a female.

The only state where fucking your girlfriend and fucking your cousin are one in the same

A State and State of Mind - and some might say a Black Sucking Hole. Born & raised... I then managed to escape for 20 years. Later I somehow got sucked back down to Dixie for what was supposed to be temporary... that was 5 years ago (Bama years = dog years, so that's 35 actually). It has beautiful country, ocean, flat lands, mountains, waterfalls, etc. And even FREE thinkers but only in Birmingham on the Southside. Politically the state is firmly in the hands of the GOP. White democrats (aka Dixiecrats) rushed like lemmings from the Democratic side to the Republican as a result of the GOP’s rhetoric on states rights. By capitalizing on white fear, they successfully rode the civil rights movement in the 50s and 60s to victory. In Alabama, it being the BUCKLE of the Bible Belt, there are many puritanical religious zealots that think Bill Clinton put an x-ray vision satellite in space that flies over every night and counts their guns. No lie... there are those who wrap their pistols in aluminum foil so they won’t get counted.

God's Anus.

I've lived in Alabama for 16 years. I'm 18 years old. Alabama can be a nice state at times, when it comes to football and hospitality. But if you even dare to mention anything that goes against the bible or the republicans, you might get shot.
There are rednecks, racists, and an overwhelming amount of black people.
But, if one took the time to look into the state and it's standings today, one might realize that this state is no longer what it used to be. There are more and more schools that are teaching from an education point of view, and not a religion-filled point of view. Yes, there are schools where religion is the foundation. But most of the schools, public, magnet, and private, are branching out and showing the students how to accept everything and everyone and to live life THEIR way and not someone elses' way. There are democrats living here, contrary to popular belief. There are goths, emos, gangsters, scene kids, indie kids, and all the rest of the stereotypes here too.

If you want to find a place where there are a lot of nice people who only act friendly to you if you're nice to them, or if you want to find a place where there aren't that many big name attractions, where you can live a life of solitude, then I recomend Alabama.
But if you want to live somewhere where you can be accepted no matter who you are, what you are, where you're from and why you're there, then I suggest you go to the north, west, or upper east.

It's one of the best places to leave.It's peaceful just being able to step outside and see the sky..and to be able to Breath!!We have very nice people here...it's called southern hospitality!We don't have racism problems like we are rumored to have..we have African Americans and Mexicans that go to my school!We have everything that we need to have here..and it's where I've lived all my life.I have never met anyone in my life that is inbred so thats obviously not true.It's also a very nice place to raise your children.So overall it's a great place to live!

Bye the way..how the hell would you guys know if it's a terrible place to live..half of you probably have never even visited Alabama,and the whole things about trying to defend my state waa deal..yeah well you think we are weird!!!your the one coming a STUPID website trying to defend yourself..and u ppl think we are messed up..