are among the hottest in the United States, with high temperatures averaging over 90 °F (32 °C
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throughout the
summer in some parts of the state.
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with average January low temperatures around 40 °F (4 °C) in
Mobile and around 32 °F (0 °C) in Birmingham
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in the United States with
52,423 square miles (135,775 km
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admitted to the Union in?
1819
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in March 1974
badly affected Alabama
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. Alabama is also
prone to tropical storms
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Although snow is a rare event in
much of Alabama
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of total area
: 3.19%
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Part of the
frontier in the 1820s
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Alabama is located
in the middle of the
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Areas of the state?
far away from the Gulf are not immune to the effects of the storms
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There is a significant movement to
rewrite and modernize Alabama's constitution.[84
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the area is
water
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1830s, its constitution
provided for universal suffrage
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$170 billion, or?
$29,411 per capita
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which often dump tremendous amounts of rain
as they move inland and weaken
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the government holds a
monopoly on the sale of alcohol
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Summers in Alabama are
among the hottest in the United States
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Alabama is the
thirtieth largest state
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2008 GDP increased
0.7% from the previous year
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averages between
70 and 80 days
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Developments in the
1986 Democratic primary election led to the election of the first Republican Governor in more than 100 years and started Republicans on the road to political dominance in the state