Probably a larger percentage of Virginians and South Carolinians remain unreconstructed than elsewhere, with Georgia, North Carolina, and Alabama following along after them.

He was a wiry, inscrutable, silent country boy from the red clay of rural Alabama, and he spoke with the broad drawl that others normally make fun of.

One state, Alabama, closes its fiscal year on September 30, and all cities in the state, with one exception, also close fiscal years on September 30.

In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.

Fort Toulouse, on the Alabama River, had been erected in 1714 for trade with the Alabamas and Choctaws, but money was available for only one other new post, near the present Nashville, Tennessee, and this was soon abandoned.

Cousin Emma had simply put Miss Theresa Stubblefield, Rome, Italy, on the envelope, had walked up to the post office in Tuxapoka, Alabama, and mailed it with as much confidence as if it had been a birthday card to her next-door neighbor.

Following World War II, Alabama experienced growth as the economy of the state transitioned from one primarily based on agriculture to one with diversified interests.

Railways connect it with the mineral regions of north-central Alabama.

The Alabama River's main tributary, the Coosa River, crosses the mineral region of Alabama and is navigable for light-draft boats from Rome, Georgia, to about above Wetumpka ( about below Rome and below Greensport ), and from Wetumpka to its junction with the Tallapoosa.

It became apparent that, as the slavery issue took center stage, the slaveholding states were more reluctant to agree with the bill, with the primary antagonists being the senators in Virginia, Texas, North Carolina and Alabama.

The Senate likewise rejected Seward's arrangement with Britain to arbitrate the Alabama Claims.

The Falcons made a surprise trade up with the Cleveland Browns in the 2011 NFL Draft to select Alabama wide receiver Julio Jones sixth overall.

However, a US Public Health Service trial of BCG in Georgia and Alabama published in 1966 showed an efficacy of only 14 %, and did much to convince the US it did not want to implement mass immunization with BCG.

An early fascination in automobiles led Brown to a job with the Stevens-Duryea Company, then to his own Brown Motor Car Company in Alabama.

According to Anthony Harkins in Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, the term first appeared in print in a 1900 New York Journal article, with the definition: " a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills, has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it, and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him.

The Cuban Exile journalist and author John O ' Donnell-Rosales, who was born in the area of Cuba with the last confirmed sightings, reported sightings near the Alabama coastal delta in 1994, but these were never properly investigated by state wildlife officials.

In 1954, JPL teamed up with Wernher von Braun ’ s rocketeers at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency ’ s Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, to propose orbiting a satellite during the International Geophysical Year.

On another occasion in Alabama, Moon and Entwistle loaded a toilet with cherry bombs after being told that they could not receive room service.

He inducted Lynyrd Skynyrd into the 2006 Rock ' n ' Roll Hall of Fame and performed " Sweet Home Alabama " with them.

The town has more than twelve murals completed, and will host the Conference along with Dothan, Alabama, and Blakely, Georgia.

* 1963 – The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the " Birmingham campaign " protesters.

* 1931 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.

* 1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

no: Alabama

The fauna and flora of Alabama are similar to those of the Gulf states in general and have no distinctive characteristics.

It held in Hamilton v. Alabama,, that counsel had to be provided at no expense to defendants in capital cases when they so requested, even if there was no " ignorance, feeble mindedness, illiteracy, or the like.

Whether expressed in a sit-in at lunch counters, a freedom ride into Mississippi, a peaceful protest in Albany, Georgia, a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, these are outgrowths of Thoreau's insistence that evil must be resisted and that no moral man can patiently adjust to injustice.

* William L. Yancey's " Alabama Platform ," endorsed by the Alabama and Georgia legislatures and by Democratic state conventions in Florida and Virginia, called for no restrictions on slavery in the territories either by the federal government or by territorial governments before statehood, opposition to any candidates supporting either the Wilmot Proviso or popular sovereignty, and federal legislation overruling Mexican anti-slavery laws.

Even today, Clay County is one of only three counties in Alabama to have no U. S. Highways in its boundaries.

no: Clay County ( Alabama )

no: Montgomery County ( Alabama )

no: Baldwin County ( Alabama )

no: Barbour County ( Alabama )

no: Bibb County ( Alabama )

no: Blount County ( Alabama )

no: Butler County ( Alabama )

no: Chambers County ( Alabama )

no: Choctaw County ( Alabama )

no: Clarke County ( Alabama )

no: Cherokee County ( Alabama )

no: Winston County ( Alabama )

no: Coffee County ( Alabama )