Dirty Boots: “And we ain’t got but fifty states.”

Dirty Boots: Irregular Attempts at Critical Thinking and Border Crossing offers a Deep Southern, Generation X perspective on the culture, politics, and general milieu of the 21st century. Back in 2016, when then-governor Robert Bentley quipped to a small crowd that Alabama’s education system “sucks,” he explained that our schools were ranked 51st, adding, “And we ain’t got but fifty states.” His remarks drew a few chuckles from that audience, but the larger response was swift, definite, and negative. Considering the lack of funding and widespread job cuts, there were… Read more Dirty Boots: “And we ain’t got but fifty states.” →