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ExciteBike66
(2,280 posts)Tikki
(14,539 posts)...boycott alabama football.
Tikki
still_one
(91,965 posts)LexVegas
(6,005 posts)MineralMan
(146,192 posts)I can do no more than that.
janterry
(4,429 posts)not because tourism will take that much of a hit (frankly, most of the tourists to the gulf coast in alabama probably live in very red states
BUT it will impact companies that are wondering if they want to relocate to Alabama. With a boycott on, they'll think twice.
nycbos
(6,033 posts)Because I never intended go there in the first place even before all this.
malchickiwick
(1,474 posts)Never been there; never plan to go. Ick.
mreilly
(2,120 posts).... in reality I spend as little time as possible in shithole red states, and Alabama and Misssissippi are the shittiest of the shitholes. Never venturing to either state, period. No reason to go on business, and I spend my vacation dollars in blue states.
I suppose one thing I can do when purchasing goods is to determine where they are manufactured or where the businesses reside, so as to ensure not one cent on my part ever reaches a soul in Alabama.
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)I'd like to see it for a day or two just because I have a bucket list of going to all 50 states.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)I'm down to my last three
Mississippi
Alabama
Louisiana
I wonder if my little ford hybrid with NY plates would be noticed by the local constabularies if I just skirted the coast?
liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)I travel to Alabama yearly to visit family.
We have PA plates. Never had a problem.
Of course, my *slight* Southern accent
doesn't hurt.
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)My 2 are IL (driven through but not stopped) and NV (20 minute airport layover in Vegas). BUt I'm in my 30s and have time to complete the other 17/19.
I also have NY plates.
Louisiana has always been on my bucket list. Always wanted to see New Orleans.
Grammy23
(5,808 posts)The beaches, starting about at the AL/FL line are sugar sand. They look like sugar and the further east you go, the whiter the sand. In addition, the water has a greenish hue and gets greener with hints of blue as you go east. It isnt called the Emerald Coast for nothing!
There are historic sites to visit, too. Forts that date to the Civil War era are all along the Coast. Fort Massachsetts is off of Mississippi, Fort Morgan and Gaines are off of Alabama. (Fort Conde is in Mobile.) Pensacola has Ft. Barrancas, Ft. Pickens and remnants of Ft. McRae. The Gulf Islands National Seashore spans along the sea shore across several states and has beautiful wild areas that are undeveloped and rather pristine.
There are more things to see in Ft. Walton Beach and Panama City Beach. Quaint towns like Apalachicola are a little further east. You could just get in your car and make your way across the Coast. There is something for everyone!
Please come enjoy these areas! You never know when tRump will decide to sell them off or open them up for more condos, restaurants and souvenir shops. 🤔 There ARE plenty of those, too, but there are also lots of undeveloped areas to enjoy.
P.S. Dont worry about your NY plates. Lots and lots of snowbirds and retirees are down here so you will blend right in.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,063 posts)I've done everything in my power to stop this travesty.
I really appreciate it because god knows we are the ONLY state with asshole repugs in power. We should be nuked off the planet, right?
janterry
(4,429 posts)states like Alabama? I'm sure many respectable people are voting for Moore - because it's part of the culture. But we have to change that - how do we work with/talk to/implore states like Alabama that change is a good thing?
Thrill
(19,178 posts)All that state does is send hateful racist scumbags to the the Senate over and over.
Initech
(99,915 posts)Thanks to Trump fans who boycott anything that so much breathes in their direction wrong.
janterry
(4,429 posts)a business - esp. corporations - are reluctant to relocate to a state with an active boycott.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,698 posts)Best thing about the state is that some DU members are from there.
Submariner
(12,485 posts)Passed on the Toyota, and just bought a Subaru fresh off the boat from Japan instead.
The thought of purchasing and driving around in a new Sequoia assembled by some inbred sixth grade dropout Trump voter who has sex with his little sister turned me off to Toyota. So there's a few thousand bucks Bama kissed off.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)help -- or force -- them advance beyond maybe removing a few confederate monuments and flags.
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)I'm not good with figuring out how to start these movements.
TlalocW
(15,359 posts)And that at least SOME of the people aren't batshit crazy, but when you think tourism, vacation, and fun, Alabama is not at the top of a lot of lists.
TlalocW
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)CanonRay
(14,038 posts)onenote
(42,383 posts)Not really very productive -- if Moore's elected, he's going to be in office and no boycott is going to change that. However, assuming Jones gets 40-plus percent of the vote, there's a good chance such a boycott will hurt the people who supported Jones as much as it hurts those who voted for Moore, and likely make them less likely to support a Democrat in the future.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Never wanted to.
Alea
(706 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)for a minute.
one of my favorite vacations ever was when my dad and grandparents took me to Huntsville. We stayed at Point Mallard and I got to jump off the Olympic diving platform. My dad let me bring my best friend and we had a blast. At least, until we went to the movies one day and saw Jaws. Scared the shit out of us. That was in 1975 and I haven't been back except to drive through between Texas and Florida.
Politics aside (as 12 year olds we didn't care anyway) it was just fun being with my friend and grandparents.
dembotoz
(16,739 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Hurts people who don't deserve to be hurt. Does nothing to Moore.
still_one
(91,965 posts)........ Sorry Alabama
lame54
(35,141 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)I've literally got one of those 5 minutes down the access road from me
http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/12/the_top_20_bars_in_alabama_in.html
populistdriven
(5,639 posts)RICANs are all ameRICANs & they don't collectively support pedophiles!