Afterword

Abstract

The chosen subtitle of this book is Culture, Politics, and Resources in and around Alabama because Alabama fares worse than any other state in the South in K-12 evolution education, despite a wealth of local resources for observing evolution in action. Alabama is infamous regarding a number of controversial topics, including race relations, same-sex marriage, climate change denial, along with evolution. This position is not unwarranted. As indicated, this is related to the region’s historic resistance to outside-enforced change. Alabama has made national and international news numerous times over the past several decades. Among the most notorious incidents is the then governor George Wallace’s “stand on the schoolhouse door” in front of Foster Hall on the campus at the University of Alabama (UA) in 1963. More recently, the UA sorority system came under fire for its lack of racial integration 50 years after the Wallace incident, as did the State for defying a federal mandate to issue same-sex marriage licenses.