Relocating to Alabama?

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Before you start your journey, take a minute and review what makes Alabama a great place to work and play.

What makes Alabama real estate worthwhile?

Several of the natural regions in Alabama have shaped the state’s history and economy. The Black Belt, for example, developed into a premier location for cotton plantations during the period of slavery and after the United States Civil War. Consisting of dark and fertile clay soils, this region runs northwest to southeast, cutting across most of Alabama in a strip less than 100 kilometers (60 miles) wide. After the boll weevil infested economy-sustaining cotton crops in 1915, Alabama farmers diversified. Today they raise livestock and plant corn, soybeans, and peanuts, and a monument dedicated to the boll weevil now stands in the southeastern town Enterprise.

The state’s name derives from two Native American Choctaw terms for the Alabama River: alba, or “vegetation-thicket,” and amo, or “gatherer-clearer.” The river’s shores were home to the Choctaw Alibamu or Alibamon people, and archaeological evidence suggests that people lived in Alabama at least 9,000 years ago.

The arena for many historic social and political struggles, Alabama is known as the Cradle of the Confederacy or The Heart of Dixie. In 1861 Montgomery hosted the first secession convention, which elected Jefferson Davis president of the Confederacy. These events hurried the beginning of the Civil War. Nearly 100 years later, African American Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. organized and led civil rights activists in the Montgomery bus boycott. King also organized the “Freedom March” from Montgomery to Selma, one of many protests of racial prejudice and segregation.

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