[caddypope]

hi im moving from cincinnati to alabama im looking for anice town to raise kids yet predominately black so far i like aliceville,camp hilll and monroe county does anyone from alabama have lots of details on these places thanks.

[southernnaturelover]

Well I live next door to Monroe County (in Escambia County). Monroe County is fairly rural and the biggest town is Monroeville (hometown of Harper Lee). Monroeville is okay I guess, it has it's good parts and bad parts. The economy is pretty depressed right now though just like everywhere else, so jobs are scarce.

[LHinsman]

I am from Gadsden and within the actual city limits, there is a strong black community. The more rural towns like Hokes Bluff and Southside are predominantly caucasian. The schools are good and there are jobs in the area. It's a pretty basic town, but everything you need is right there! Proximity to B'Ham, Hunstville, ATL is great!

-Lauren

[Southlander]

Selma (yes, Selma) might merit a look.

[just-me-in-tn]

Originally Posted by Southlander

Selma (yes, Selma) might merit a look.

My thoughts exactly.

[EscAlaMike]

Most towns in Alabama (except the Northeastern part) have significant black communities, and in many, blacks are the majority. Your biggest hurdle will be securing a job.

[harry chickpea]

Tuskeegee immediately comes to mind, but for a quiet community with jobs surrounding it, I think of Cortland (west of Decatur where all the industrial places are, south of the big paper plant, and east of Tuscumbia). Census calls it about an equal mix of B&W there, but I'm not sure. Compared to other places, it tends to stay out of the news.

[Southlander]

There's Courtland and there's East Courtland.
East Courtland is 99% black. That's why they split from Courtland.

[Threestep2]

I do not get it. AL is being questioned and often condemned here for being racial and OP is asking where segregation is hapy and alive?

[harry chickpea]

Originally Posted by Threestep

I do not get it. AL is being questioned and often condemned here for being racial and OP is asking where segregation is hapy and alive?

LOL! Yep. You shoulda seen the fuss I raised in the Vermont forum, when someone asked where there was a black hairdresser, because whites didn't know how to cut the hair of a black woman properly.

There are different cultures, the mixing pot will never turn them into cream soup. The confusion comes because the country was formed along egalitarian principles, and the intent of desegregation was to further those principles. In that context, segregation (whether enforced, or self-segregation) and DE-segregation, are more artifacts than structures with intrinsic meaning.

"Egalitarianism is a trend of thought in political philosophy. An egalitarian favors equality of some sort: People should get the same, or be treated the same, or be treated as equals, in some respect. Egalitarian doctrines tend to express the idea that all human persons are equal in fundamental worth or moral status. So far as the Western European and Anglo-American philosophical tradition is concerned, one significant source of this thought is the Christian notion that God loves all human souls equally. Egalitarianism is a protean doctrine, because there are several different types of equality, or ways in which people might be treated the same, that might be thought desirable."

source: Egalitarianism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

If there is a dichotomy, it is that the founders spoke "All men are created equal" while conveniently allowing slavery to continue to exist (along with indentured servitude), and forgetting about women.

The real divisive issue in Alabama is "Tide or Tigers?"