What Happened To Birmingham Alabama? 

There's so much wrong info in your message! Huntsville is bigger than Birmingham.

@@jojom6657 I count metro and all and by far Birmingham metro is still un touched in the state of Alabama. MT. Brook is literally in the city limits of Birmingham but don't claim as Birmingham the zoning hear is all messed up thats basically the only reason they say Birmingham is losing people. They are only counting the poverty areas of Birmingham for it's size not the whole city it's self

@@jojom6657bhams metro is 1.1 million and Huntsvilles is 500k

@@jojom6657 Lol. Huntsville is only bigger based on technicality. Nobody in their right mind would see Bham as 2nd or even 3rd largest city in the state. I've been to Huntsville many times, their downtown isn't even half the size of Bhams, and Bham isn't even a large downtown. Let these surrounding cities incorporate into Bham and no other city in Alabama would touch Bham population numbers for another 100 years.

@@jojom6657 you didn’t analyze what he was saying sir ! Not everyone done the census in Birmingham! Trust the population is way more than said ! But the Birmingham metro is 3 times as large as Huntsville. Birmingham metro Is 1.2 million and really you wouldn’t ever notice it being the 3rd largest city it will still feel like it’s the largest city regardless an the county that it’s in , is around 660,000 an that itself is stilll larger then the Huntsville metro ………….. Sir or ma’am 🫡

The entire metro area is stagnant, because the City of Birmingham is stagnant. When the core city declines, that is not a good thing. Even while people move to the suburbs as a result. It may look like growth, but it isn't. It's simply a population shifting and they're building up new suburban areas as a result. Basically, replacing what they left behind in the inner city. Migration from other places outside of the Birmingham Metro area is what really grows and keeps cities vibrant. Like what Atlanta has managed to do over the last 50 years.

@@1TewBuMyShoethat’s just how things work. Dallas and Fort Worth as cities aren’t growing very much. But the metro population has exploded.

@@twinkjakdoomerwhy is it different in Florida cities like Tampa, St Pete, Miami where the downtown cores are growing?

I can see b-ham taking a major team but at the same time I can’t. Because Alabama and auburn are still gonna be king. With most folks having a sour grapes view of pro sports.

You should give up drugs. Bham sucks always has and always will. its a shithole. I hate it here been here for 65 years.

​@@fatpowerfulit wouldn't be different from any other state either MLS and college sports. Alabama citizens would adapt to the change at some point. The city would generate so much revenue. Hopefully Birmingham can pull something off like that once day.

the xfl team was thunderbolts and they sucked.

Close but no Cigar.

@@lettybastien4624 I don’t know how that saying applies but okay

I wouldnt call Atlanta nice. Even Nashville is looking rought but in Atlanta, the city is just falling apart.

@@thorgeirnable well have you ever been north of downtown?

@@Feelsbadman23I think the same thing because there is a lot of amazing places to visit and go!😊❤

Spare me your "white flight" nonsense. Many people don't want the hustle and bustle of the big city.

I moved from Pittsburgh to birmingham lmao

Especially the decisions around gambling and alcohol. Alabama is hard headed.

​@@PrincessPowerUpnah that's not it, it was more so turning down the airport expansion, turning down the train system from the airport to downtown, road infrastructure, cutting back on public transit, breaking off into more and more suburbs. Division by salary....and racism.

Birmingham (and Alabama) held on tightly to racism. Atlanta (and Georgia) knew when it was over *and* that they had to do something for the people. There were still a lot of black people employed by GA government during segregation. And Atlanta very wisely diversified their economy early on.

​​​@@drc3po I can't disagree that Birmingham's South suburbs have a better quality of life than Atlanta's suburbs. I am a 46 year old life long suburban Atlantan and these days the quality of life is much greater in Birmingham's southern suburbs than Atlanta's northern suburbs. Atlanta is too congested. There is too much demographic transition because of rapid growth. Birmingham seems still completely southern and in a sophisticated manner. I'm speaking of those Southside suburbs, here, like Vestavia, Homewood, Hoover, and Mountain Brook. The Atlanta area is a patchwork quilt these days with southern areas still highly noticeable on the west, and south, and northwest parts of the metro, but it also has northern transplant dominated areas, heavy up the 400 corridor Then there are the immigrant dominated areas (Norcross, Chamblee) The lushness of the Birmingham area along with the greater elevation variation (even though the Atlanta area is at a higher elevation, it looks less so because Atlanta is in the Piedmont and Birmingham is the southern end of the Ridge and Valley) makes it very unique. If I ever had to leave the Atlanta area, I'd move to a place like Hoover or Vestavia Hills without questioning it.

@@drc3po I've known how nice that area is ever since around the time my uncle moved to Vestavia from Lilburn, Georgia. He's recently passed, but his wife and one of his daughters (a cousin of mine) still live in the area. A lot of people look at statistics for Birmingham and wrongly assume the whole region is like that. There is a big contrast between much of the area north of Red Mountain (Southside neighborhood is relatively nice and is an exception, as are Trussville and a few other areas on that side of town). The way a friend explained the area is that Birmingham's Southside is comparable to Atlantas Northside, in terms of being the nicest sides of town. Whereas Atlantas Southside is more comparable to Birmingham's northside.

Any place in Alabama would be better than Rhode Island.

@@davidlafleche1142 That's such an exaggeration, Rhode Island is not that bad lol

@@davidlafleche1142 Beaches, good seafood AND not sweating like one is on a chain gang... Rhode Island: 🙂 Montgomery: ☹️ The Redneck Riviera: 🫠

That's not saying much.

@@davidlafleche1142 Newport is lapping Gulf Shores in any competition of beach towns

And one of the highly considered best ball parks (in major league and otherwise) in the world. Regions is a beautiful place to take in a game

@@fatpowerful I'm talking about Rickwood, not Regions Field the Barons are playing at now (you right about it tho) 🙂

@@c-dogg9188 I know about Rick wood.

So what?

That's so true I grew up in huntsville and Birmingham al and Birmingham is still larger then huntsville why they start saying this, now maybe huntsville is larger in business now but not size

​@@user-ov1jl5vj2tjus large in people not business

Rite😂😂

Ikr!!!!

I had that awesome Cd, by Amanda.

I'd say Randy Newman's "Birmingham" is a closer historical depiction of the town.

@@markbajek2541 Hmm,I should check that out.

That Amanda Marshall song is absolutely fantastic and I loved seeing it on MTV/VH-1 back when they used to play music....but the song isn't actually about Birmingham...at least not directly.

Finally someone who actually understands

Crime in Southside....

Certain elements? Well, think of what was done to these elements by people like you.

That would be a good one. I left in 1982.

Except no water

@@grumbogee1772 tf u talking about

@@IamJWood you live under a rock?

@@grumbogee1772 its water all round this mfhka, tf is you talking about....hell its water in pipes too. this aint Flint

@@grumbogee1772 do you? Birmingham has water dummy

And one of the top 10 in the US in violent crime.

Lol! Huntsville outgrew Birmingham!!!

​@@jojom6657Huntsville expands it's City limits every year as well. They went from 130 sq miles in the 80s to now having 221 sq mi worth of city limits. They're growing, but they're not RAPIDLY growing. Just expanding and building rapidly.

Birmingham didn't even try to compete.

@@markrichards6863more like they didn’t understand that had to make one specific shift in order to survive: Disband the White minority rule of the city. They fought it tooth and nail until almost the entire White middle and upper class left the city, leaving only a small Black middle class and a large amount of poor white and black residents. In doing so the hamstrung their own economy and they got walloped when US manufacturing started going overseas just like the Rust Belt. Atlanta too saw a steep decline in manufacturing, but their White and Black middle and upper class came to an agreement that they weren’t going to fight the inevitable and welcome Black leadership into government and business. This upset the lower class whites and they were the ones that left the city opening the door for middle class Blacks to move down in droves from the Northeast and Midwest. This seemingly small difference is literally why Metro Atlanta became a emerging world city of nearly 7 million residents with its finger on the pulse of popular culture and Birmingham wallowed in the mud of their stubbornness to move on. The good news though is that it seems Birmingham is finally getting it and hope they succeed. God know Alabama needs some help not becoming Florida or Mississippi 2.0.

​@@markrichards6863exactly, if Bham would have fought, we would have won by default for the central location. Our higher ups just didn't want it or the attention. But instead, they invested in Atlanta while living here which is why there are so many rich suburbs in the Birmingham Metro.

They are pulling in telecommunications now. Seems to be helping a lot

U kno Sam tremble

How insightful.

Except what happened to Birmingham has some degree happened to cities all over the country. It's prosperity didn't leave for other states. It left for the suburbs.

Found the most moronic comment

Outdated, tired, lame bigotry vomited by someone who is unable to locate the US on a map. Yawn….🥱🥱

Birmingham is a huge festering cancerous boil on the face of Alabama.

My dad works at AmeriGas in Birmingham too.

I have been wanting the capital to be in Birmingham for forever bruh

@@Prod.Likidd4L B'ham was once the capital a long time time ago.

They’re talking about building a new statehouse. Call your state rep and Senator and tell them to move it somewhere other than Montgomery. Put it somewhere in east Alabama in the blackbelt if you want a solely economic play. Put it a bit south of Birmingham if you to make it more centrally located. Montgomery’s main selling point was that it was big enough to hone relatively easy to get to and stay in for the legislature while being small enough to be incapable of seriously influencing state politics. Now that it has grown it is not a good place to have the capital.

@@xaviergross4002 Só was Huntsville

​@@xaviergross4002no it wasn't. We were never the Capitol. Tuscaloosa was at one point, Huntsville as well.

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😂😂. Found the left wing fascist bigot.

Most current census reports/estimates have it as the third largest in the state behind Huntsville & Montgomery. It looks as if it fell into third place over the last 2 years due to population decline.

That is only city limits. Metro area is number one and will be for at least twenty more years at current trends.

Birmingham ALMOST got the Patriots. In 1968, they were playing in Fenway Park, but kept having scheduling conflicts with the Red Sox. They had to arrange a "home" game at Legion Field. Alabama was prepared to build a new, football-only facility, totally free. Patriots owner Billy Sullivan said, "No, thanks, I want to stay in New England." He finally built Schaefer Stadium in 1971, for only $7 million, but at least it was his own money.

You is?

Not something I’d be proud of

Trumps not coming back 😂

​@@kurisu3000looks like he is

As in certain people you mean black people? Right? Lmao just say it my guy

@@itzkgt2919 I grew up in Eastlake & Woodlawn. I lived around mostly black and Mexican people. We were all poor so it's up to you to decide if it's because of race,crime ,or poverty. I lived there because the rent was cheaper since the place was a ghetto.

Memphis is predominantly black and it’s not like this. The video pretty much says that the racist is worse in the Deep South and the white community everywhere but especially Birmingham haven’t really made any attempts at reparations or trying to redeem themselves. Look at how it’s illegal to do a Nazi salute in Germany. Germany has done more to make amends than the U.S.A. That’s the real reason the population is shrinking in Birmingham. Nobody wants to be around all of this racial tension! If the white community in Birmingham had been more like Germany maybe it would be seen as a more welcoming place to live.

​@@stephaniemarie4303 Yep.

​@@OliviaJowersCrump428 being from there it's definitely a lot of racial tension. Most that not from there don't know it.

Birmingham is a Democrat city; that's much more important than Alabama being a red state. Local politics supercedes state politics within a city

There's more people live in Jefferson County than Huntsville metro area.

fool, Bill Clinton signed NAFTA into law. Think hard, junior....was Clinton a Democrat or a Republican? I'll wait....

Democrats ruined birmingham

racism, still alive and well down there

Say you didn’t watch the video without saying you didn’t watch the video.

You didn’t come here to learn you came to spread hate from a “moral high ground” you think you’re on because your skin pale😂

​@@al99795racism is still alive and well all over the United States.

Foreal he cappin like a mf😂

Huntsville is the biggest city. Birmingham has thebiggest metro area.

@@donkeysaurusrex7881 ok then that mean what u talking is obsolete until hv metro is bigger shut we don't wanna hear it ,and in the words of veezy Birmingham is the capitol of Alabama we got the motion in this state wtf is a Huntsville?.. .Big B'ham 205 shit .

@@dirtydirty5857 LOL

World Games didnt really help the city from what I heard

🙄 and?

Mobile is quickly becoming the second homicide capital, thank goodness I live across the bay in Baldwin county. Fairhope is my little Hallmark home

@@chrisswank6846 I'm sure mobile is thankful your ass is far from it.

Sureeee please go live in Prichard 😂😂😂😂😂

You wouldn’t last a day in mobile that’s worse then Birmingham 😂

@@itzkgt2919my family lives there you runt

Explain please

Well "lil" whatever, bye a plane ticket and leave

@@bama2579 Gotcha. You're yet another right winger who cries and moans about free speech but wants to shut down other's free speech.

@@lilmsgs make your comment make sense

@@bama2579 Maybe you can get someone to help you understand a perfectly understandable comment.

@@aleckazamproductions8139 maybe you shouldn't be there either my friend!you don't sit back&let people talk about where you ate from.

@@tommy6108 as a history teacher, I talked about where everyone is from everyday. It is called the right of speech. Everyone has an opinion. And I don't respect those who disrespect others for their beliefs. You sound highly ignorant, as is apparent from your perspective and lack of grammar. I dont mean to be disrespectful, but I found your comment highly disrespectful and worth of acknowledgment

@@tommy6108 When you react emotionally to outsiders putting your kind down for being supposedly "backwards", well, you're kind of proving their point. LS at least channeled their angst into words and got a southern rock anthem out of it.

@@scarpfish 538 north park place apt #5!either you ate a man or not!

Boohoo, can you still fit into your kkk costume?