There are just over 2,000 DRIs in the entire US, 46 of which are women. Alabama is leading the list with >300 inmates per 10M inhabitants.

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    Alabama is still the home of a lot of US operations like NASA.

    States like Ohio and West Virginia are worse

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      A significant part of NASA may be in Alabama, but If bet that’s not where most of those educated engineers are coming from.

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      Correct me if I’m wrong as I’m an Australian but isnt Alabama the only state that doesnt have a NHL, NFL, NBA or MLB franchise?

      (Contiguous states that is, Alaska and Hawaii dont count.)

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      I mean not as much anymore since the end of the shuttle program. Huntsville is where a lot of vehicle production but a lot of that is private companies like ULA, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, etc. with govt contracts and subsidies. There’s only about 7k direct nasa employees at Marshall.

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      Because that makes members of Congress more likely to sign off on spending bills, not because Alabama is a great place for it.

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      Hey, we have NASA in Cleveland too (GRC)! but, I agree, we also largely suck. There are also some very good people there too (Alabama). It’s all a bad system.

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        Maybe it is isolated to a particular region but last time I checked there were a lit of smart people in Alabama. Everyone from farmers to aerospace engineers are really to innovate.

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          Alabama is the 49th dumbest state in the country.

          If it weren’t for Huntsville, Alabama would be a land of wild ape men

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          Oh, of course we have a lot of smart people in all of our states. But, unfortunately, Alabama has been consistently at the bottom overall in education.