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Who Are You1. Where and in what year were you born?2. Where do you live currently? 3. Where have you lived or spent significant time in Alabama? 4. Are you married, single, or divorced? Do you have kids? 5. What is your religion? Where do you worship? 6. What kind of work do you do, and where? 7. What jobs have you had in the past? Around Alabama8. What places in Alabama have made the biggest impact on you, and why?9. What does it mean to you to be an Alabamian? 10. What’s the best thing about living in Alabama? 11. What’s the worst thing about living in Alabama? 12. What do people outside of Alabama think about Alabama? 13. What do you want people outside of Alabama to understand about Alabama? Alabama’s Past and Present14. What would life in Alabama be like now if the South had won the Civil War?15. Is the Confederate flag a symbol of heritage or hate? Or both? Or neither? 16. What is the “Black Belt”? 17. Does the legacy of slavery and segregation still affect Alabama today? Why? How? 18. Is racism alive and well in Alabama, or is it a thing of the past? 19. Why is Alabama one of the poorest states in the US? 20. What does a person have to have (or have to be) to live happy and healthy in Alabama? Politics in Alabama21. What are the biggest issues facing Alabama today?22. What do you know about Alabama’s state constitution? 23. Who are your legislative representatives, both in Washington DC and Montgomery? 24. What is your opinion of the state legislature? 25. Would you be willing to pay higher taxes if it would lead to real improvement in our quality of life? 26. What is the last thing that politicians did that made your life better? 27. What is the difference between a “conservative” and a “liberal”? 28. What are “family values”? 29. What does “too liberal for Alabama” mean? 30. Who has been Alabama’s best governor in your lifetime? Why? Religion in Alabama31. Is America a Christian nation?32. Should there be prayer in schools? 33. Should the Ten Commandments have stayed in Alabama’s Judicial Building, and should Roy Moore have been removed from being Alabama’s Chief Justice? Education in Alabama34. Can kids where you live get a decent education in their zoned public school?35. How important is education in a person’s life? 36. What are your hopes for your children? Around Alabama, Part II37. How has recent immigration and new foreign-owned business affected Alabama?38. What is the best restaurant in Alabama? 39. How is life in the South different now from when (or where) you grew up? 40. Do you own a gun? Why? 41. Do you hunt or fish? The Nation and The World42. Who has been the best US president in your lifetime? Why?43. What do you know about Islam and Muslims? 44. Do we live in a safer, more secure America since 9/11 and the War on Terror? 45. Do you know anyone who fought or is fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan? 46. Do you know anyone who fought in Vietnam? 47. If someone offered to buy you any one thing you wanted, what would it be? 48. Should Alabama follow other states by legalizing “gay marriage”? 49. If a kid with blue hair and a nose ring came to you to apply for a job, would you hire him, if he were qualified for the job? The Last Question50. If you could change the events of Alabama’s past, what would you change and why? |