Alabama , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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ALABAMA , state, United States , state in the southeastern...Gulf of Mexico (S), and Mississippi...camellia. State tree, Southern (longleaf) pine...state ranks third in U.S. broiler chicken...to the economy. Government, Politics, and Higher Education...representatives to the U.S. Congress and...dominated by the Democratic party from Reconstruction...Since then, the two parties have tended to alternate...at Tuskegee. History Early History to...Britain ceded (1783) to the United...occupied in force until 1865. Alabama ratified...