I'm from Huntsville, NE corner, more Yankees here than any where else in Alabama because of the Space and Rocket Center. Those yankee engineers like it here. Bigger houses for less money. Less property tax. I pay in a year about what my son pays a month. We got a lot of them from St. Louis.
Winston County still has a billboard welcoming you to the "Free State of Winston" They are still very proud of trying to scuceed from the State.