When's it gonna be north Alabama's turn?

Since a sizable portion of Alabama's population lives in the northern part of the state, you'd think a sizable number of our elected officials would hail from there.

You'd be wrong. As today's (Florence) TimesDaily reports, only one of the 29 statewide officeholders lives north of Birmingham. A University of Alabama political scientist says it might be because many of the area's white voters are Democrats in a GOP-dominated state. An even likelier explanation is voters' tendency to opt for candidates from small towns instead of densely populated places, a phenomenon at the heart of the modern Alabama political ad.