I had to look it up on a map....really small, small-town Alabama.
Towards the Mississippi line. We call if the back belt because of the rich soil, though in recent years, every-time I write that explanation it feels less true.
Now it is a trending story on The Washington Post, the kind of story Yankee reporters like Stephanie McCrummen love to write about hardscrabble, dirt-poor, tiny Alabama towns. She describes it as one of the least powerful places in Alabama and who can argue?
The story has poverty, small-towness, with race and politics and lots of color, most of it black. And a parade too.
And excellent photography, like the photo below, by the Post's Michael S. Williamson
Read it.
Towards the Mississippi line. We call if the back belt because of the rich soil, though in recent years, every-time I write that explanation it feels less true.
Now it is a trending story on The Washington Post, the kind of story Yankee reporters like Stephanie McCrummen love to write about hardscrabble, dirt-poor, tiny Alabama towns. She describes it as one of the least powerful places in Alabama and who can argue?
The story has poverty, small-towness, with race and politics and lots of color, most of it black. And a parade too.
And excellent photography, like the photo below, by the Post's Michael S. Williamson
Read it.
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