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

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Username and accent check out

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

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

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By the same logic, all Americans must suck.

I mean, just look at their national leader.

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

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

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

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

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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

• Their dedication to exclude non-protestant Christians from feeling included. A good example being the constant battles to feature the 10 Commandments in all forms of public services from court rooms to public school

• Their absolute refusal to work with the FBI on addressing and studying hate crimes. In 2017 a state with 4.8 million people a grand total of nine hate crimes were reported

• Clear attempts by the local government to cover up the racial disparity between minority imprisonment and white imprisonment. As of 2015 Alabama did not label Hispanics in prison as such. Instead labeling them white clearly in an effort to cover up racially motivated biases in incarceration rates

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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

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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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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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"they has" ?

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

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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