Hate & Bigotry in the Deep South

In a news story published in the Birmingham News here:Republican rep. Gerald Allen seeks to ban literature concerning homosexuality from all public schools and libraries in Alabama. The only person I know from Alabama is one of my marine buddies, stationed in NC. He's extremely intelligent, but apparently is not representative of the average in his state (which also recently voted down a motion to remove segregationist language from the state constitution). How far will it go? Bigotry is alive and well in the US of A. Booyah!