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| - The State of Alabama was a political entity established in January, 1984, located in the northern portion of the former U.S. state of Alabama. It was established as a successor to the former state of Alabama. The capital is in Florence, and it consists of the former U.S. Congressional Fifth District and portions of the former U.S. Congressional Fourth, Third and Seventh Districts. It also claims former Alabama south to Tuscaloosa, although locals have disputed that claim for decades. Alabama was one of the three original states in the Confederate States of America when it was founded in 1985. A town adjacent to Florence, Muscle Shoals, became the capital of the CSA. Alabama seceded from the CSA in 1999, hastening that country's demise. It maintains relations with the other former states of the Muscle Shoals-based CSA, as well as with East Tennessee, Blue Ridge, Piedmont and the nations of the Dixie Alliance. Florence is home to the University of Alabama (known as the University of North Alabama pre-Doomsday). The university's football team plays at Tom Braly Municipal Stadium, which seats 13,015 spectators. American expatriate businessmen living in Mexico and the ANZC have helped fund building of a new, 40,000-seat stadium near the Florence campus. To be named the Paul Bryant Memorial Stadium, construction is scheduled to be finished by 2011.
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