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Post by catscratchfever4 on Jul 18, 2018 13:46:05 GMT -6
That's the reason for years I've said Lauderdale County should've seceeded to Tennessee. We would be 120 miles from the state capitol instead of 200+. We may as well be on the moon. Montgomery acts as if we don't even exist. Tennessee would jump at the chance. Another river port, fine University, new hospital coming in, owned by Tennesseans.
All one has to do is go into South central Tennessee to see all the new interstate-quality highways and bridges that were built quickly, not over the course of FOUR decades but quickly. The Hwy 43 project would have been finished at least 15 years ago and I am more than sure we would already have at least one interstate spur, probably two. Because of the way Tennessee takes care of their business, it continues to experience tremendous growth that they are able to spread across the state, not just in their largest cities as is the Alabama way. Little Lawrence County, Tn. is treated much better than Bama treats the larger Lauderdale County.
When territories and state lines were being drawn more that 150 years ago, We were in Tennessee as the river was the boundary at that time.
A couple of times, once in the not so distant past, Alabama tried to persuade the Pan Handle to become a part of Alabama. In earlier times, there was wide support from Floridians to seceed but it never happened. The last time there was little support. Frankly the Pan Handle screwed up. They will ALWAYS get the short end of the stick behind Miami,Tampa,Jacksonville, Orlando and all the other large cities up and down the coasts. Pensacola with its giant naval base and harbor and Panama City, a huge tourist magnet, would be the jewels of the new Alabama.
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Post by tuna85 on Jul 18, 2018 14:49:33 GMT -6
That's the reason for years I've said Lauderdale County should've seceeded to Tennessee. We would be 120 miles from the state capitol instead of 200+. We may as well be on the moon. Montgomery acts as if we don't even exist. Tennessee would jump at the chance. Another river port, fine University, new hospital coming in, owned by Tennesseans. All one has to do is go into South central Tennessee to see all the new interstate-quality highways and bridges that were built quickly, not over the course of FOUR decades but quickly. The Hwy 43 project would have been finished at least 15 years ago and I am more than sure we would already have at least one interstate spur, probably two. Because of the way Tennessee takes care of their business, it continues to experience tremendous growth that they are able to spread across the state, not just in their largest cities as is the Alabama way. Little Lawrence County, Tn. is treated much better than Bama treats the larger Lauderdale County. When territories and state lines were being drawn more that 150 years ago, We were in Tennessee as the river was the boundary at that time. A couple of times, once in the not so distant past, Alabama tried to persuade the Pan Handle to become a part of Alabama. In earlier times, there was wide support from Floridians to seceed but it never happened. The last time there was little support. Frankly the Pan Handle screwed up. They will ALWAYS get the short end of the stick behind Miami,Tampa,Jacksonville, Orlando and all the other large cities up and down the coasts. Pensacola with its giant naval base and harbor and Panama City, a huge tourist magnet, would be the jewels of the new Alabama. Times are changing as population continues to shift northward legislative representation will also. Rarely, in my lifetime, have you seen folks in state government decision making positions from North Alabama. One day folks in North Alabama will come to the conclusion that they need to unite behind North Alabama candidates for state offices if they ever want a fair shake from Montgomery.
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Post by northalaspectator on Jul 18, 2018 18:09:20 GMT -6
That's the reason for years I've said Lauderdale County should've seceeded to Tennessee. We would be 120 miles from the state capitol instead of 200+. We may as well be on the moon. Montgomery acts as if we don't even exist. Tennessee would jump at the chance. Another river port, fine University, new hospital coming in, owned by Tennesseans. All one has to do is go into South central Tennessee to see all the new interstate-quality highways and bridges that were built quickly, not over the course of FOUR decades but quickly. The Hwy 43 project would have been finished at least 15 years ago and I am more than sure we would already have at least one interstate spur, probably two. Because of the way Tennessee takes care of their business, it continues to experience tremendous growth that they are able to spread across the state, not just in their largest cities as is the Alabama way. Little Lawrence County, Tn. is treated much better than Bama treats the larger Lauderdale County. When territories and state lines were being drawn more that 150 years ago, We were in Tennessee as the river was the boundary at that time. A couple of times, once in the not so distant past, Alabama tried to persuade the Pan Handle to become a part of Alabama. In earlier times, there was wide support from Floridians to seceed but it never happened. The last time there was little support. Frankly the Pan Handle screwed up. They will ALWAYS get the short end of the stick behind Miami,Tampa,Jacksonville, Orlando and all the other large cities up and down the coasts. Pensacola with its giant naval base and harbor and Panama City, a huge tourist magnet, would be the jewels of the new Alabama. My ideal is for the State of Alabama to become two separate states. The dividing line would be generally along the 33 degrees north latitude line. North of the line would be: North Bama South of the line would be: South Bama Bibb & Greene Counties would be located in South Bama. Then the Florida Panhandle should secede and join South Bama. The Capital of North Bama should be in the vicinity of Cullman County.
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Post by brandon on Jul 18, 2018 19:58:10 GMT -6
I think Florence should be the capital of North Bama. We would have the namesake University.
Then Calhoun Community College could turn into North Alabama Tech. Expand their already nice campus, add football, join the NCAA, and be our secondary rival behind jsu.
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Post by brandon on Jul 25, 2018 21:20:09 GMT -6
Yet year after year after year LSU and the Green Bay Packers uniforms are in the top five nationally due to their gold. But who am I to judge when millions have spoken. I don't think the yellow gold is the reason they get the "top 5" honors. It's the simplistic style. If it was traditional gold instead of yellow gold, I'm sure they would still rank just as high
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Post by unalions on Jul 25, 2018 22:21:42 GMT -6
The transfer of the territory from about 1818-1821 went sideways. Really, the Territory (possibly could have been a state) of West Florida is the real loser in the situation.
Interestingly, Pensacola voted to become part of Alabama in 1821 but the Feds wouldn't let it because it was the largest city in the newly formed state of Florida. Lol.
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Post by catscratchfever4 on Jul 25, 2018 22:21:44 GMT -6
Haha. Maybe but I doubt it. They avoid wearing purple religiously. Their official colors are purple and old gold. Wisely theey've never worn old gold that I know of and yearly they are ranked in the top ecechelon. Since I started watching them play in the days when practically every Tiger Had a French name (Except Warren Capone) they always wore the yellow gold pants and white shirt. Over the years a few teams chose to wear their road unis at home forcing LSU to wear their ugly purple. Same thing happens to Dallas and Miami in the NFL.
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Post by catscratchfever4 on Jul 25, 2018 22:28:14 GMT -6
The transfer of the territory from about 1818-1821 went sideways. Really, the Territory (possibly could have been a state) of West Florida is the real loser in the situation. Interestingly, Pensacola voted to become part of Alabama in 1821 but the Feds wouldn't let it because it was the largest city in the newly formed state of Florida. Lol. I read a story in the times daily I think. It said Florida tried to sell the entire panhandle to Alabama for one million dollars. In their finite wisdom, Bama officials refused. They said they wern't paying a million dollars for land that was nothing but sand and jackrabbits.
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Post by unalions on Jul 26, 2018 0:07:15 GMT -6
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Post by brandon on Jul 26, 2018 6:13:42 GMT -6
Haha. Maybe but I doubt it. They avoid wearing purple religiously. Their official colors are purple and old gold. Wisely theey've never worn old gold that I know of and yearly they are ranked in the top ecechelon. Since I started watching them play in the days when practically every Tiger Had a French name (Except Warren Capone) they always wore the yellow gold pants and white shirt. Over the years a few teams chose to wear their road unis at home forcing LSU to wear their ugly purple. Same thing happens to Dallas and Miami in the NFL. I di know that they have worn the throwback ( ) Uniforms in the last few seasons. Old gold helmets, trim and white pants. The only time "officially" they where the white tops (LSU) is when they play a home conference game. Non conference gets the purple tops. I have been told it's a superstition rather than anything else.
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Post by unafied on Jul 26, 2018 6:51:03 GMT -6
Haha. Maybe but I doubt it. They avoid wearing purple religiously. Their official colors are purple and old gold. Wisely theey've never worn old gold that I know of and yearly they are ranked in the top ecechelon. Since I started watching them play in the days when practically every Tiger Had a French name (Except Warren Capone) they always wore the yellow gold pants and white shirt. Over the years a few teams chose to wear their road unis at home forcing LSU to wear their ugly purple. Same thing happens to Dallas and Miami in the NFL. I di know that they have worn the throwback ( ) Uniforms in the last few seasons. Old gold helmets, trim and white pants. The only time "officially" they where the white tops (LSU) is when they play a home conference game. Non conference gets the purple tops. I have been told it's a superstition rather than anything else. I believe the "superstition" thing was at least how it started, but I'm sure now they wear white out of tradition more than anything else. Honestly, I think their yellow/white/yellow uniform is overrated. I realize I'm in the minority on that. I just don't think white jerseys mix well with lighter colored pants and helmets, even if their shade of yellow is as dark as you can make yellow be. Now, their purple jerseys? Love them. They should wise up and wear those for every home game. But they'd probably run the risk of angering 90,000 drunk Cajuns...
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Post by catscratchfever4 on Jul 26, 2018 10:28:56 GMT -6
Haha. Maybe but I doubt it. They avoid wearing purple religiously. Their official colors are purple and old gold. Wisely theey've never worn old gold that I know of and yearly they are ranked in the top ecechelon. Since I started watching them play in the days when practically every Tiger Had a French name (Except Warren Capone) they always wore the yellow gold pants and white shirt. Over the years a few teams chose to wear their road unis at home forcing LSU to wear their ugly purple. Same thing happens to Dallas and Miami in the NFL. I di know that they have worn the throwback ( ) Uniforms in the last few seasons. Old gold helmets, trim and white pants. The only time "officially" they where the white tops (LSU) is when they play a home conference game. Non conference gets the purple tops. I have been told it's a superstition rather than anything else. Changing their uniforms started when they started losing and the losing has yet to stop. Same with Tennessee and Auburn for a short time. Disgusting. No pride in their colors.
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Post by catscratchfever4 on Jul 27, 2018 11:17:11 GMT -6
I di know that they have worn the throwback ( ) Uniforms in the last few seasons. Old gold helmets, trim and white pants. The only time "officially" they where the white tops (LSU) is when they play a home conference game. Non conference gets the purple tops. I have been told it's a superstition rather than anything else. Changing their uniforms started when they started losing and the losing has yet to stop. Same with Tennessee and Auburn for a short time. Disgusting. No pride in their colors. Their white jerseys on the road are much more prevalent than you may think:
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LSU has never played @ Missouri! Can you believe that?
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Post by brandon on Jul 27, 2018 12:32:08 GMT -6
The white away uniform was never the topic. They only wear white at home during SEC games. Non conference home games they wear purple (most of the time)
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Post by catscratchfever4 on Jul 27, 2018 14:16:31 GMT -6
The white away uniform was never the topic. They only wear white at home during SEC games. Non conference home games they wear purple (most of the time) So the vast majority of the time they wear the white shirts and gold pants.
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