Alabama is a fucked up state!

[SmokinDVM]

Let 'em all move to Iraq.

[kevin7]

I went down to 'Bama in 95 to work hurricame Opal and I can say that it was one of the nicest places I ever worked. Good people at the power company and everywhere we went we were treated good. They fed us like there was no tomorrow and put us up in a very chusy hotel. On the way back home we stopped at the Talladega track and the dude asked what we were doing here(we looked scruffy at best) and when we told him we were down restoring power he let us tour the place free and gave us all a hat. You can find all manner of fucked up skinheads and black supremists in any state and city in the country. Bama is OK by me.

Kevin

[tampacigargirl]

Somewhere between the moon & Mars? Sounds like a good place to me.

[Eshaw99]

I'm not a resident, but I was born in Alabama and still have lots of family all over the state. None of them racists...

Stereotyping works both ways there buddy...

[Bassfever]

I pulled the boat down there this year and fished Pickwick. What a beautiful State. Dont give them anything but a bullet to the head.

[Newfie]

IN May 2001 I combined a business trip with pleasure and rode my bike down to Louisiana. I obviously covered several states, 'Bama being one of 'em, and thought the same as many here stated, it was beautiful. Lots of very nice people, but I did get some experience with the racism.

I stopped at a small gas station on the sid of a side road and when paying for the gas, was alone in the store with the clerk (a nice African-American gentleman about the age to retire). I was just trying to make small talk with him; asking about the weather, was he busy, nice area, yadda yadda and all through the one-sided (more or less) conversation, he seemed very nervous and kinda twitchy. I found this weird and passed it off. When I got to the plant site in Geismar I was visiting, I mentioned it to a couple of guys over lunch one day. They told me he was nervous because generally, white folk don't talk to "them" and he probably figured I was going to rob him. In my ignorance of racism and prejudice I asked who "them" was and I basically got laughed at.

I found this attitude a little disturbing and said how I thought this feeling towards humans of a different race died in the '60's and early '70's. Again they laughed at me and I allowed the subject to die there, but it always stays with me.

[Kenyth]

IN May 2001 I combined a business trip with pleasure and rode my bike down to Louisiana. I obviously covered several states, 'Bama being one of 'em, and thought the same as many here stated, it was beautiful. Lots of very nice people, but I did get some experience with the racism.

I stopped at a small gas station on the sid of a side road and when paying for the gas, was alone in the store with the clerk (a nice African-American gentleman about the age to retire). I was just trying to make small talk with him; asking about the weather, was he busy, nice area, yadda yadda and all through the one-sided (more or less) conversation, he seemed very nervous and kinda twitchy. I found this weird and passed it off. When I got to the plant site in Geismar I was visiting, I mentioned it to a couple of guys over lunch one day. They told me he was nervous because generally, white folk don't talk to "them" and he probably figured I was going to rob him. In my ignorance of racism and prejudice I asked who "them" was and I basically got laughed at.

I found this attitude a little disturbing and said how I thought this feeling towards humans of a different race died in the '60's and early '70's. Again they laughed at me and I allowed the subject to die there, but it always stays with me.

I guess I was lucky. Huntsville was a sizable city. Racism was no more prevalent than anywhere else I've been. The military being the melting pot it is, you practically NEVER see racism there.

[Kenyth]

I went down to 'Bama in 95 to work hurricame Opal and I can say that it was one of the nicest places I ever worked. Good people at the power company and everywhere we went we were treated good. They fed us like there was no tomorrow and put us up in a very chusy hotel. On the way back home we stopped at the Talladega track and the dude asked what we were doing here(we looked scruffy at best) and when we told him we were down restoring power he let us tour the place free and gave us all a hat. You can find all manner of fucked up skinheads and black supremists in any state and city in the country. Bama is OK by me.

Kevin

I lived in Huntsville for a few years. I was in the military stationed at Redstone Arsenal. I can honestly say, all in all, it's the nicest area I ever lived in. The area I enjoyed least was Ft. Sill in Lawton Oklahoma.

Georgia is nice also. Visited there a few times.