Been this way for a long time. Here's the history of poverty in Alabama. http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1387 http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1387
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <jr_esq@...> wrote : level of poverty and environmental degradation in the area.. IMO, this is inexcusable for a country that shows the world to be economically advanced and well off. https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/f7940ae9-54a9-3163-b547-9c230d71363c/ss_u.n.-officials-touring-rural.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/f7940ae9-54a9-3163-b547-9c230d71363c/ss_u.n.-officials-touring-rural.html