Chances are that most people who read this column are “homegrown” Alabamians. An estimated 70 percent of those who live in the state today were born here, according to recent research on homegrown populations done for Governing magazine, using data from the Census Bureau. Alabama’s homegrown population percentage is the 10th-highest among all 50 states. It isn’t the highest in…
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