Although it is not a strictly defined geographic region, it generally includes all Alabama counties south of the Black Belt.

Alabama counties are barred by state law from imposing income taxes, and so several have come up with occupational taxes that have the same effect.

Darby garnered 43% of the vote, carrying 33 of 67 Alabama counties.

As of the 2010 census the population was 11,539, but since that time it has lost the most population by percentage of any Alabama county.

In many Alabama counties, campaigns succeed or fail based on the efforts of people doing what they have always done - calling, visiting and convincing.

President Bush declared a Federal disaster area Saturday in six central Alabama counties.

Some Alabama counties show "the best child-welfare practice in the country," Mr. Groves wrote.

Judicial nominating commissions are also used on the county level, such as in some Alabama counties.

A hospital in one of the hardest-hit Alabama counties reported a sharp increase in hurricane-related accidents.

Under the constitution of the time, the Probate Judge was the chief executive official of an Alabama county.