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University of Alabama
(Courtesy Cokie Thompson)
Coming to Alabama was a bit of an adjustment. Alabama’s brand of southern is both more rural and more polished than Memphis, or so it would seem. What I knew about Alabama before I started school was beef cattle farming in Cullman County and the affluence of law and finance in Birmingham.