Alabama politics has always been geographically tribal.
For some folks in Birmingham and Huntsville, Mobile and Baldwin counties might as well be Mexico. For some folks in Mobile and Fairhope, Huntsville and Muscle Shoals might as well be Canada. Somewhere in the middle is our state capital, Montgomery.
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