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Houston County was the last county created in the state, on February 9, 1903. [3] According to 2023 U.S. Census data, the average population of Alabama's 67 counties is 76,246, with Jefferson County as the most populous (662,895), and Greene County (7,341) the least. [7] The average land area is 756 sq mi (1,958 km 2).
White Americans made voter registration and voting so difficult that most black and many poor white Americans were excluded from the political system for decades. Today, Alabama's rural Black Belt includes some of the poorest counties in the United States. Along with high rates of poverty, the area is typified by declining populations, a ...
In a pattern typical of most rural Alabama counties, Franklin County supported the Dixiecrats in 1948 and George Wallace in 1968, but unlike other counties, had been won by Republicans in 1956 and 1960, cracking the wall of the Solid South before full-fledged turnover in 1964 and beyond.
Greene County is a county located in the west central portion of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,730, [1] the least populous county in Alabama. Its county seat is Eutaw. [2] It was named in honor of Revolutionary War General Nathanael Greene of Rhode Island. [citation needed]
The rural county was referred to as "Bloody Lowndes", [8] the rusty buckle of Alabama's Black Belt, because of the high rate of white violence against blacks to maintain segregation. In 1965, a century after the American Civil War and decades after whites had disenfranchised blacks via the 1901 state constitution, they maintained white ...
Jefferson County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Alabama, located in the central portion of the state. As of the 2020 census , its population was 674,721. [ 3 ] Its county seat is Birmingham . [ 1 ]
PIEDMONT, Ala. (AP) — While the rest of the country’s schools were losing ground in math during the COVID pandemic, student performance in a rural Alabama school district was soaring.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,253 square miles (3,250 km 2), of which 1,238 square miles (3,210 km 2) is land and 14 square miles (36 km 2) (or 1.1%) is water. [12] It is the third-largest county in Alabama by land area and the fourth-largest by total area.