Alabama, ca. 1980

Originally published on level:deepsouth— for Generation X During the time that Generation X was growing up, Alabama had 3.89 million people living here, more than 900,000 of them age 15 or under. In 1980, about 40% of Alabamians lived in rural areas, 45% lived in towns of 25,000 to 100,000 people, and only 15% lived in one of the state’s urban areas.  Combining those facts and figures would mean that relatively few GenXers grew up in one of Alabama’s four major cities – 15% of 900,00 is 135,000 – while the… Read more Alabama, ca. 1980 →