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Originally Posted by jtown,man
Alabama's economy isn't on fire like Florida or Georgia.
Over 27% of the state is black and according to Wikipedia, almost 50% of kids under 1 are minorities. So apparently plenty of non-whites are moving in or live there already.
And the straight comment? Gay migration isn't a big numbers game anywhere in this country. Your comment just reeks of politics above reality.
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Of course my comment was rooted in politics. The state governs itself basically with a Christian version of Sharia law. This is the state that tried to make abortion illegal with zero exceptions even for rape and incest. The state that came suuuuuper close to electing a known pedophile as a Senator. The state that had multiple judges that refused to issue marriage certificates to gay couples, even after gay marriage became the law of the land. They have a law that's called, and I'm not kidding here, the "no promo homo law" which states that school sex ed programs have to teach that 'homosexuality is not a lifestyle acceptable to the general public'.
It's one of the most conservative states in the country. Voted overwhelmingly for Trump, who has done nothing but demonize immigrants and even suggested shooting them as they try to come to the border to seek asylum. Why the hell would any immigrant want to live in a place where the majority of the population supports a guy who would rather see them die than live in this country? The state has a high black population because of slavery, duh. It has entrenched black poverty, and has used and continues to use widespread voter suppression tactics to continue to marginalize its black population and keep them out of power. Yeah, I stand by my original post.