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From 1901 through the 1960s, the state did not redraw election districts as population grew and shifted within the state during urbanization and industrialization of certain areas. As counties were the basis of election districts, the result was a rural minority that dominated state politics through nearly three-quarte... |
Alabama state politics gained nationwide and international attention in the 1950s and 1960s during the civil rights movement, when whites bureaucratically, and at times violently, resisted protests for electoral and social reform. Governor George Wallace, the state's only four-term governor, was a controversial figure ... |
In 2007, the Alabama Legislature passed, and Republican governor Bob Riley signed a resolution expressing "profound regret" over slavery and its lingering impact. In a symbolic ceremony, the bill was signed in the Alabama State Capitol, which housed Congress of the Confederate States of America. |
In 2010, Republicans won control of both houses of the legislature for the first time in 136 years. |
, there are a total of 3,589,839 registered voters, with 3,518,285 active, and the others inactive in the state. |
Elections |
In a 2020 study, Alabama was ranked as the 12th most difficult state for citizens to vote. |
State elections |
With the disfranchisement of Blacks in 1901, the state became part of the "Solid South", a system in which the Democratic Party operated as effectively the only viable political party in every Southern state. For nearly a hundred years local and state elections in Alabama were decided in the Democratic Party primary, w... |
Members of the nine seats on the Supreme Court of Alabama and all ten seats on the state appellate courts are elected to office. Until 1994, no Republicans held any of the court seats. In that general election, the then-incumbent chief justice, Ernest C. Hornsby, refused to leave office after losing the election by app... |
In the early 21st century, Republicans hold all seven of the statewide elected executive branch offices. Republicans hold six of the eight elected seats on the Alabama State Board of Education. In 2010, Republicans took large majorities of both chambers of the state legislature, giving them control of that body for the... |
Only three Republican lieutenant governors have been elected since the end of Reconstruction, when Republicans generally represented Reconstruction government, including the newly emancipated freedmen who had gained the franchise. The three GOP lieutenant governors are Steve Windom (1999–2003), Kay Ivey (2011–2017), an... |
Local elections |
Many local offices (county commissioners, boards of education, tax assessors, tax collectors, etc.) in the state are still held by Democrats. Many rural counties have voters who are majority Democrats, resulting in local elections being decided in the Democratic primary. Similarly many metropolitan and suburban countie... |
Alabama's 67 county sheriffs are elected in partisan, at-large races, and Democrats still retain the narrow majority of those posts. The current split is 35 Democrats, 31 Republicans, and one Independent Fayette. However, most of the Democratic sheriffs preside over rural and less populated counties. The majority of Re... |
Federal elections |
The state's two U.S. senators are Republican Richard C. Shelby and Republican Tommy Tuberville. Shelby was originally elected to the Senate as a Democrat in 1986 and re-elected in 1992, but switched parties immediately following the November 1994 general election. |
In the U.S. House of Representatives, the state is represented by seven members, six of whom are Republicans: (Bradley Byrne, Mike D. Rogers, Robert Aderholt, Morris J. Brooks, Martha Roby, and Gary Palmer) and one Democrat: Terri Sewell who represents the Black Belt as well as most of the predominantly black portions ... |
Education |
Primary and secondary education |
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. |
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, more than 82 percent of schools made adeq... |
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). The largest educational gains we... |
Generally prohibited in the West at large, school corporal punishment is not unusual in Alabama, with 27,260 public school students paddled at least one time, according to government data for the 2011–2012 school year. The rate of school corporal punishment in Alabama is surpassed by only Mississippi and Arkansas. |
Colleges and universities |
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 Ost... |
The largest single campus is the University of Alabama, located in Tuscaloosa, with 37,665 enrolled for fall 2016. 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 s... |
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), the Council on Occupational Education (COE), and the Accrediting Council ... |
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). |
According to the 2012 U.S. News & World Report, Alabama had four tier one universities (University of Alabama, Auburn University, University of Alabama at Birmingham and University of Alabama in Huntsville). |
Media |
Major newspapers include Birmingham News, Mobile Press-Register, and Montgomery Advertiser. |
Major television network affiliates in Alabama include: |
ABC |
WGWW 40.2 ABC, Anniston |
WBMA 58/WABM 68.2 ABC, Birmingham |
WDHN 18 ABC, Dothan |
WAAY 31 ABC, Huntsville |
WEAR 3 ABC Pensacola, Florida/Mobile |
WNCF 32 ABC, Montgomery |
WDBB 17.2 ABC, Tuscaloosa |
CBS |
WIAT 42 CBS, Birmingham |
WTVY 4 CBS, Dothan |
WHNT 19 CBS, Huntsville |
WKRG 5 CBS, Mobile |
WAKA 8 CBS, Selma/Montgomery |
Fox |
WBRC 6 FOX, Birmingham |
WZDX 54 FOX, Huntsville |
WALA 10 FOX, Mobile |
WCOV 20 FOX, Montgomery |
WDFX 34 FOX, Ozark/Dothan |
NBC |
WVTM 13 NBC, Birmingham |
WRGX 23 NBC, Dothan |
WAFF 48 NBC, Huntsville |
WPMI 15 NBC, Mobile |
WSFA 12 NBC, Montgomery |
PBS/Alabama Public Television |
WBIQ 10 PBS, Birmingham |
WIIQ 41 PBS, Demopolis |
WDIQ 2 PBS, Dozier |
WFIQ 36 PBS, Florence |
WHIQ 25 PBS, Huntsville |
WGIQ 43 PBS, Louisville |
WEIQ 42 PBS, Mobile |
WAIQ 26 PBS, Montgomery |
WCIQ 7 PBS, Mount Cheaha |
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