I feel pity for Alabama...

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[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Believe it or not, Kay Ivey is almost as bad. nt

[Corgigal]

2. I feel pity

for Sassy.

[vlyons]

3. Yikes! Look at that man's face!

If you didn't know anything about him, would that face alone creep you out? Gives me the creeps.

[lpbk2713]

4. A lot of die hards will vote for him too.

But probably not enough.

[bitterross]

5. Yes, Haven't the actual GOOD people of AL suffered enough?

I know that not everyone in AL is an idiot. Just the Roy Moore supporters and defenders. So, I do feel pity for the good people there.

[misanthrope]

6. Hate to tell you this but the non-idiots in Alabama are outnumbered

It has long been a cesspool of open corruption, laws based in vehement bigotry and the worst kind of regressive conservatism you can imagine. The foundation of its culture is the quasi-feudal system of the antebellum era.

If you want to see more of what I'm talking about, I would suggest reading the archival columns from journalists like Pulitzer Prize winner John Archibald, Kyle Whitmire and Josh Moon.

I would add to that reading list the book "Leaving Birmingham" by Paul Hemphill. Birmingham is one of the more modern regions of the areas, its economic hub and a place founded after the Civil War on industry rather than agriculture, it's immersed in many of the same old problems. Its extra-regional investors weren't as interested in cultivating New South ideals as exploiting the souls already toiling in the shadow of the Old South.

It makes you understand that if the state's hub is like that, how it must be elsewhere.

[Scurrilous]

7. Do it! Do it for the children.

Then do the children.