Estimates recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that Alabama’s population has grown by 6 percent since the 2000 Census. With 4.7 million people, Alabama has 1.5 percent of the U.S. population. Six of our Southeastern neighbors have grown much faster since 2000: Georgia (20 percent), North Carolina (17 percent), Florida (16 percent), South Carolina (14 percent), Tennessee (11…