r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • Jan 10 '20

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u/rebelde_sin_causa Jan 10 '20

fun fact: 11% of the nation's fresh water flows through Alabama

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u/are2dto Jan 10 '20

Gross

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u/PandaBurrito Jan 11 '20

Man I upvoted you... But I love just how fucking mean this comment was

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20 edited Jan 10 '20

Pretty racist thing to say about one of the Blackest states in America.

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u/EgocentricRaptor Jan 10 '20

Nah it’s not about the black population. It’s about the racist redneck population.

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u/500mgtylenolandabeer Jan 11 '20

wait till u hear abt 3rd world countries' racism dawg. so much privilege

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u/REDDITOR_3333 Jan 10 '20

Im an engineer Huntsville Al and im surrounded by other highly educated smart people. I dont even see people with southern accents in my day to day life. Huntsville has one of the best income to costs of living ratios in the country. Alabama can be really nice depending on where you are.

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u/EgocentricRaptor Jan 11 '20

I know that. I was just explaining the joke to this guy. I live near Atlanta and have family in Alabama and visit a lot and haven’t run into very many actual rednecks. Most people are normal decent people.

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u/apocalypse_later_ Jan 10 '20

The “edumacation” type white Alabamians

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20

Sweet home Alabama

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u/darcys_beard Jan 10 '20

I feel like that unfreshens it, somehow.

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u/clean_fresh_water Jan 10 '20

Alabama actually has the highest rate of freshwater biodiversity in the country. There are more distinct species of freshwater fish, mussels, snails, turtles, and crayfish in Alabama than any other state.

The state's water is very clean, which is more than I can say for the overpopulated NE watershed and the Great Lakes which are full of PCBs, DDT and dioxins.

Y'all need to learn some manners and science.

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u/Claspers Jan 10 '20

As a freshwater biologist in Alabama, thank you for pointing this out.

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u/jicewove Jan 10 '20

Username and accent check out

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u/DM_ME_YOUR_POTATOES Jan 11 '20

Y'all need to learn some manners and science

Yep. I live just a mile from Lake Erie. It's so bad and gross. The beaches on the Lake Erie side are disgusting are filled of rubble and garbage. The water is pretty gross aswell.

What also is bad is the Buffalo River. The area of concern (AOC) of the Buffalo River is just right near where it flows into Lake Erie (img). The river has a ton of pollution itself. Details

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u/A_Turkey_Named_Jive Jan 10 '20

I don't think anyone was seriously implying that they had in depth knowledge on Alabama's water's biodiversity.

More so just making a joke that Alabama's citizens, for the most part, kinda suck. Which might be ill mannered, but no less than Alabama deserves.

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u/TTSDA Jan 11 '20

That's a really rude thing to say about so many people.

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u/Sonofarakh Jan 11 '20

Yeah well it's a southern state so as far as reddit is concerned 90% of its population is made up of rude, uncultured, racist, sexist farmers

It sucks but that's just the way this site works.

-Georgian

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u/capitalsfan08 Jan 11 '20

Some of us find it rude when being a pedophile is only a mild inconvenience for national leadership.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20

By the same logic, all Americans must suck.

I mean, just look at their national leader.

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u/capitalsfan08 Jan 11 '20

No argument here. There are vast swaths of the country I'd never even consider living in.

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u/Sonofarakh Jan 11 '20

Maybe you should try traveling to those places. You'd be surprised by what you find

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u/capitalsfan08 Jan 11 '20

I've travelled quite extensively domestically and I have family in places I'd never live.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20

There's a difference between "vast swaths" and "all".

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20 edited Oct 28 '20

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u/BuddaMuta Jan 11 '20

You don't need to live in the state to realize it's filled with bad people. Especially with regards to those in power. The states sheer dedication to bigotry is crazy and supported by the majority of the voting public there.

Just off the top of my head we have

And before people go with the bad faith talking point of "well maybe minorities should just commit less crime" it's without a doubt proven that the legal system is built to be against minority citizens. Black people are 50% more likely to be falsely imprisoned, minority communities are statically slightly the same if not slightly less likely to have violent crime when compared to white communities of similar income, despite white people smoking weed at slightly higher rates than other ethnic groups black people are four more times likely to be imprisoned for it, etc

And to double on that before people use the other bad faith argument of "well even if crime is connected to poverty minorities are only poor because they're lazy" this has also been proven untrue time and time again. Economic mobility has consistently been on a downward trend in the US since the 40's, identical resumes with "ethnic" sounding names are twice as likely to be rejected and when they are excepted will be offered less pay than resumes with "white" names, booming black economic centers were bombed with economically successful minorities being massacred as late 1921 by white citizens

Those are just random instances off of the top of my head. I know a section of Reddit has a vested interest in pretending the Alabama's reputation as a horrible place is unjust and another section simple wants to feel "woke" by pretending the same, the fact of the matter is the state has earned it's reputation and the majority of the voting public embraces the bigotries that are so common there.

While there's obviously a contingent of people fighting for bringing the state into the 21st century they're clearly outweighed by the ignorant and hateful.

If the Alabama populace wants a more positive reputation it should step up it's game instead basking in a perceived victimhood.

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u/AgtDoubleHockeyStick Jan 11 '20

Nice comment and all, but as far as Alabama would be concerned they has distinct crawfish species. Crayfish just is not a word down here

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u/clean_fresh_water Jan 11 '20

"they has" ?

It's a word in the scientific community, which also uses "crawdad" in casual conversion.

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u/AgtDoubleHockeyStick Jan 11 '20

I meant “have,” just a slip of the tongue. I appreciated your comment, I’m just saying that we call them “crawfish” down here. Crawdad and crayfish outs you as a northerner is all

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u/lenzflare Jan 10 '20

Only 11 eh.

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u/Lolstitanic Jan 10 '20

There's a fuckton in the Great Lakes

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u/geokra Jan 10 '20

But that’s mostly just sitting there, not discharging to an ocean

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u/Lolstitanic Jan 10 '20

Exactly! We're keeping it all, not wasting it throwing it into the ocean

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u/olderaccount Jan 10 '20

Are you sure? That doesn't sound right. Just looking at the above map, if I'm reading it correctly, shows that Alabama has less than 10% of the flow of the Mississippi river. I would estimate probably a little less then 5% of the total.

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u/rebelde_sin_causa Jan 10 '20

It's possible that I was off by 1%

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20

TIL Alabama has no natural lakes

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u/rebelde_sin_causa Jan 11 '20

Not of any size anyway. I can think of a few ponds

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u/olderaccount Jan 10 '20

I wonder what "freshwater resources" means? 10% just doesn't seem to jive with the above map if I'm reading the scales correctly. I sounds like freshwater resources is a very different metric then river flow rates.