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Nickname(s):
The Yellowhammer State, The Heart of Dixie, and The Cotton State |
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Motto(s): Latin: Audemus jura nostra defendere We dare defend our rights | |||||
State song(s): "Alabama" | |||||
Official language | English | ||||
Spoken languages | As of 2010[1]
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Demonym | Alabamian[2] | ||||
Capital | Montgomery | ||||
Largest city | Birmingham | ||||
Largest metro | Greater Birmingham | ||||
Area | Ranked 30th | ||||
• Total | 52,419 sq mi (135,765 km2) |
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• Width | 190 miles (305 km) | ||||
• Length | 330 miles (531 km) | ||||
• % water | 3.20 | ||||
• Latitude | 30° 11' N to 35° N | ||||
• Longitude | 84° 53' W to 88° 28' W | ||||
Population | Ranked 24th | ||||
• Total | 4,887,871 (2018) | ||||
• Density | 94.7 (2011 est.)/sq mi (36.5 (2011 est.)/km2) Ranked 27th |
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• Median household income | $48,123[3] (46th) | ||||
Elevation | |||||
• Highest point | Mount Cheaha[4][5][6] 2,413 ft (735.5 m) |
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• Mean | 500 ft (150 m) | ||||
• Lowest point | Gulf of Mexico[5] Sea level |
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Before statehood | Alabama Territory | ||||
Admitted to the Union | December 14, 1819 (22nd) | ||||
Governor | Kay Ivey (R) | ||||
Lieutenant Governor | Will Ainsworth (R) | ||||
Legislature | Alabama Legislature | ||||
• Upper house | Senate | ||||
• Lower house | House of Representatives | ||||
U.S. Senators | Richard Shelby (R) Doug Jones (D) |
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U.S. House delegation | 6 Republicans 1 Democrat (list) |
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Time zones | |||||
• most of state | Central: UTC −6/−5 | ||||
• Phenix City area | Eastern: UTC −5/−4 | ||||
ISO 3166 | US-AL | ||||
Abbreviations | AL, Ala. | ||||
Website | alabama.gov |
Alabama state symbols | |
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The Seal of Alabama |
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Living insignia | |
Amphibian | Red Hills salamander |
Bird | Yellowhammer, wild turkey |
Butterfly | Eastern tiger swallowtail |
Fish | Largemouth bass, fighting tarpon |
Flower | Camellia, oak-leaf hydrangea |
Horse breed | Racking horse |
Insect | Monarch butterfly |
Mammal | American black bear |
Reptile | Alabama red-bellied turtle |
Tree | Longleaf pine |
Inanimate insignia | |
Beverage | Conecuh Ridge Whiskey |
Colors | Red, white |
Dance | Square dance |
Food | Pecan, blackberry, peach |
Fossil | Basilosaurus |
Gemstone | Star blue quartz |
Mineral | Hematite |
Rock | Marble |
Shell | Johnstone's junonia |
Slogan | Share The Wonder, Alabama the beautiful, Where America finds its voice, Sweet Home Alabama |
Soil | Bama |
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Alabama is nicknamed the Yellowhammer State, after the state bird. Alabama is also known as the "Heart of Dixie" and the "Cotton State". The state tree is the longleaf pine, and the state flower is the camellia. Alabama's capital is Montgomery. The largest city by population is Birmingham,[8] which has long been the most industrialized city; the largest city by land area is Huntsville. The oldest city is Mobile, founded by French colonists in 1702 as the capital of French Louisiana.[9]
From the American Civil War until World War II, Alabama, like many states in the southern U.S., suffered economic hardship, in part because of its continued dependence on agriculture. Similar to other former slave states, Alabamian legislators employed Jim Crow laws to disenfranchise and otherwise discriminate against African Americans from the end of the Reconstruction Era up until at least the 1970s. Despite the growth of major industries and urban centers, white rural interests dominated the state legislature from 1901 to the 1960s. During this time, urban interests and African Americans were markedly under-represented. Following World War II, Alabama grew as the state's economy changed from one primarily based on agriculture to one with diversified interests. The state's economy in the 21st century is based on management, automotive, finance, manufacturing, aerospace, mineral extraction, healthcare, education, retail, and technology.[10]
Alabama is the thirtieth-largest state in the United States with 52,419 square miles (135,760 km2) of total area: 3.2% of the area is water, making Alabama 23rd in the amount of surface water, also giving it the second-largest inland waterway system in the United States.[77] About three-fifths of the land area is a gentle plain with a general descent towards the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. The North Alabama region is mostly mountainous, with the Tennessee River cutting a large valley and creating numerous creeks, streams, rivers, mountains, and lakes.[78]
Alabama is bordered by the states of Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama has coastline at the Gulf of Mexico, in the extreme southern edge of the state.[78] The state ranges in elevation from sea level[79] at Mobile Bay to over 1,800 feet (550 m) in the Appalachian Mountains in the northeast.
The highest point is Mount Cheaha,[78] at a height of 2,413 ft (735 m).[80] Alabama's land consists of 22 million acres (89,000 km2) of forest or 67% of total land area.[81] Suburban Baldwin County, along the Gulf Coast, is the largest county in the state in both land area and water area.[82]
Areas in Alabama administered by the National Park Service include Horseshoe Bend National Military Park near Alexander City; Little River Canyon National Preserve near Fort Payne; Russell Cave National Monument in Bridgeport; Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site in Tuskegee; and Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site near Tuskegee.[83]
Additionally, Alabama has four National Forests: Conecuh, Talladega, Tuskegee, and William B. Bankhead.[84] Alabama also contains the Natchez Trace Parkway, the Selma To Montgomery National Historic Trail, and the Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail. A notable natural wonder in Alabama is "Natural Bridge" rock, the longest natural bridge east of the Rockies, located just south of Haleyville.
A 5-mile (8 km)-wide meteorite impact crater is located in Elmore County, just north of Montgomery. This is the Wetumpka crater, the site of "Alabama's greatest natural disaster." A 1,000-foot (300 m)-wide meteorite hit the area about 80 million years ago.[85] The hills just east of downtown Wetumpka showcase the eroded remains of the impact crater that was blasted into the bedrock, with the area labeled the Wetumpka crater or astrobleme ("star-wound") because of the concentric rings of fractures and zones of shattered rock that can be found beneath the surface.[86] In 2002, Christian Koeberl with the Institute of Geochemistry University of Vienna published evidence and established the site as the 157th recognized impact crater on Earth.[87]
The state has invested in aerospace, education, health care, banking, and various heavy industries, including automobile manufacturing, mineral extraction, steel production and fabrication. By 2006, crop and animal production in Alabama was valued at $1.5 billion. In contrast to the primarily agricultural economy of the previous century, this was only about 1% of the state's gross domestic product. The number of private farms has declined at a steady rate since the 1960s, as land has been sold to developers, timber companies, and large farming conglomerates.[160]
Non-agricultural employment in 2008 was 121,800 in management occupations; 71,750 in business and financial operations; 36,790 in computer-related and mathematical occupation; 44,200 in architecture and engineering; 12,410 in life, physical, and social sciences; 32,260 in community and social services; 12,770 in legal occupations; 116,250 in education, training, and library services; 27,840 in art, design and media occupations; 121,110 in healthcare; 44,750 in fire fighting, law enforcement, and security; 154,040 in food preparation and serving; 76,650 in building and grounds cleaning and maintenance; 53,230 in personal care and services; 244,510 in sales; 338,760 in office and administration support; 20,510 in farming, fishing, and forestry; 120,155 in construction and mining, gas, and oil extraction; 106,280 in installation, maintenance, and repair; 224,110 in production; and 167,160 in transportation and material moving.[10]
According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the 2008 total gross state product was $170 billion, or $29,411 per capita. Alabama's 2012 GDP increased 1.2% from the previous year. The single largest increase came in the area of information.[161] In 2010, per capita income for the state was $22,984.[162]
The state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 5.8% in April 2015.[163] This compared to a nationwide seasonally adjusted rate of 5.4%.[164]
Alabama has no state minimum wage and uses the federal minimum wage of $7.25. In February 2016, the state passed legislation that prevents Alabama municipalities from raising the minimum wage in their locality. The legislation voids a Birmingham city ordinance that was to raise the city's minimum wage to $10.10.[165]
As of 2018, Alabama has the sixth highest poverty rate among states in the U.S.[166] In 2017, United Nations Special Rapporteur Philip Alston toured parts of rural Alabama and observed environmental conditions that he said were poorer than anywhere he had seen in the developed world.[167]
Public primary and secondary education in Alabama is under the purview of the Alabama State Board of Education as well as local oversight by 67 county school boards and 60 city boards of education. Together, 1,496 individual schools provide education for 744,637 elementary and secondary students.[219]
Public school funding is appropriated through the Alabama Legislature through the Education Trust Fund. In FY 2006–2007, Alabama appropriated $3,775,163,578 for primary and secondary education. That represented an increase of $444,736,387 over the previous fiscal year. In 2007, over 82 percent of schools made adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward student proficiency under the National No Child Left Behind law, using measures determined by the state of Alabama.
While Alabama's public education system has improved in recent decades, it lags behind in achievement compared to other states. According to U.S. Census data (2000), Alabama's high school graduation rate—75%—is the fourth lowest in the U.S. (after Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi).[220] The largest educational gains were among people with some college education but without degrees.[221]
Although unusual in the West, school corporal punishment is not uncommon in Alabama, with 27,260 public school students paddled at least one time, according to government data for the 2011–2012 school year.[222][223] The rate of school corporal punishment in Alabama is surpassed only by Mississippi and Arkansas.[223]
Alabama's programs of higher education include 14 four-year public universities, two-year community colleges, and 17 private, undergraduate and graduate universities. In the state are four medical schools (as of fall 2015) (University of Alabama School of Medicine, University of South Alabama and Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine and The Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine – Auburn Campus), two veterinary colleges (Auburn University and Tuskegee University), a dental school (University of Alabama School of Dentistry), an optometry college (University of Alabama at Birmingham), two pharmacy schools (Auburn University and Samford University), and five law schools (University of Alabama School of Law, Birmingham School of Law, Cumberland School of Law, Miles Law School, and the Thomas Goode Jones School of Law). Public, post-secondary education in Alabama is overseen by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education and the Alabama Department of Postsecondary Education. Colleges and universities in Alabama offer degree programs from two-year associate degrees to a multitude of doctoral level programs.[224]
The largest single campus is the University of Alabama, located in Tuscaloosa, with 37,665 enrolled for fall 2016.[225] Troy University was the largest institution in the state in 2010, with an enrollment of 29,689 students across four Alabama campuses (Troy, Dothan, Montgomery, and Phenix City), as well as sixty learning sites in seventeen other states and eleven other countries. The oldest institutions are the public University of North Alabama in Florence and the Catholic Church-affiliated Spring Hill College in Mobile, both founded in 1830.[226][227]
Accreditation of academic programs is through the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) as well as other subject-focused national and international accreditation agencies such as the Association for Biblical Higher Education (ABHE),[228] the Council on Occupational Education (COE),[229] and the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS).[230]
According to the 2011 U.S. News & World Report, Alabama had three universities ranked in the top 100 Public Schools in America (University of Alabama at 31, Auburn University at 36, and University of Alabama at Birmingham at 73).[231]
According to the 2012 U.S. News & World Report, Alabama had four tier 1 universities (University of Alabama, Auburn University, University of Alabama at Birmingham and University of Alabama in Huntsville).[232]
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