The typical division of branches is into a legislature, an executive, and a judiciary. It can be contrasted with the fusion of powers in a parliamentary system where the executive and legislature (and sometimes parts of the judiciary) are unified.
Alabama is nicknamed the Yellowhammer State, after the state bird. Alabama is also known as the Heart of Dixie and the Cotton State. The state tree is the longleaf pine, and the state flower is the camellia.
Alabama is the first state I think of also when I think of the south, its not so overrun like Georgia,SC,NC or Florida and not so advertised and popular like New Orleans,Louisiana and South Texas, so that leaves the southermost states Alabama and Mississippi. 05-29-2008, 01:35 AM.