re: Alabama is a really bad state by every metric.

State bans on interracial marriage were already unconstitutional as a result of the Living v Virginia decision in 1967.

There was a vote in AL (not sure if it was in 2000 or the late Nineties) to remove the now unenforceable ban from our state constitution, and I think the percentage of votes against that was somewhere in the thirties, but it may have been as high as forty percent.