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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
People! Educate me about Alabama. In a sea of red, there's an unbroken belt of counties, passing through Montgomery, that went for Obama, often by pretty big margins. Roughly the same band of counties went for Kerry and Gore as well. What distinguishes this band? Is there a higher proportion of African-Americans in this part of the state? (And if so, why such a neat horizontal strip?)
I have also learned today that Alabama has the longest Constitution in the world. So that's nice.
billy, it might also be NASA and pharma. Imports. I'm totally guessing, of course.
Hey, and if my flight went via Bangkok (some do) I could meet Fay. t boggles
We'll see.
NASA would be Huntsville and that's the extreme north of the state. That's a really interesting belt of blue, billy. Looks like you have a lot of the universities there-- Tuskeegee, and Auburn appear to be in that belt.
ETA: Not Tuscaloosa. Which, actually, would've surprised me.
Hey, is the belt along an interstate? I saw some interesting patterns relating to interstates on some electoral map somewhere.
Not really, sara-- only a little bit of I-85. But it does include the Selma-Montgomery route.
That's a really interesting belt of blue, billy.
Isn't it? It's persistent, and quite strongly blue. And is in such stark contrast to the rest of the state.
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Strangely fascinated by Alabama
Hubby and I have been talking about Prop 8, and he has some interesting points. How are "man" and "woman" defined? What about FTM/MTF/etc? What about if a man who can pass beautifully as a woman walks in to the marriage license office with someone more traditionally masculine? Is there going to be a crotch check?
And also checking the county lines and the city demarcations, Auburn isn't quite in there either, since it lies at the western edge of Lee county which went red.
However, I wasn't wrong about Tuskeegee being there.
Alabama's quite an interesting state. I'll never forget, driving along !-65 northbound, halfway between Montgomery and Birmingham, there was this GIGANTIC billboard that had a devil, horns and pitchfork, the whole nine yards, dancing amidst flames, with the admonition to "Go to church or the Devil will get you!"
Somewhere there's a picture of me standing beneath that billboard quaking in mock fear.
Strangely fascinated by Alabama
It has good meat'n'threes!
And it is really beautiful, and hauntingly so in some places (I only know Birmingham.)