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[[Image:Alabama_State_Flag.gif|thumb|right|The state flag of Alabama.]]

[[Image:Alabama_State_Flag.gif|thumb|right|The state flag of Alabama.]]

'''Alabama''' is a state in the [[United States]].  It was the twenty-second state to enter into the union, and was once a member of the [[Confederacy]].  Alabama is a state in [[the South]], and it is a [[red state]] which tends favor [[Republican]]s in elections, particularly on a national level. [http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/]

'''Alabama''' is located in the Southeastern region of the [[United States]] and on December 14th, 1819 it became the twenty-second state to enter into the union.  

==Notable People from Alabama==

==Civil War History==

[[Hank Aaron]], who holds the Major League Baseball record for most home runs hit, is from Mobile.

Alabama seceded from the union and  on January 11th, 1861 and on February 8th of that year became one of founding members of the [[Confederate States of America]]. After the [[American Civil War]], Alabama was readmitted into the union in 1868.

[[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], a civil rights activist, lived in Montgomery.

The capital of Alabama is Montgomery and its largest city is Birmingham. Alabama is a [[red state]] which tends favor [[Republican]]s in elections, particularly on a national level. <ref>http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/</ref> The current governor of Alabama is Bob Riley, a Republican. Alabama's current Senators are Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions, both are Republicans.  

[[Rosa Parks]], a civil rights activist who became famous for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, lived in Tuskegee.

*[[Rosa Parks]], a civil rights activist who became famous for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, lived in Tuskegee.

*[[Condoleeza Rice]], the current US Secretary of State, was born in Birmingham.

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