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Alabama's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in Alabama that elects a representative to the United States House of Representatives. It is composed of the wealthier portions of Birmingham, nearly all of Jefferson County outside of Birmingham, and the entirety of Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Coosa, and Shelby counties. It is currently represented by Republican Gary Palmer. The Cook Partisan Voting Index rating lists the district as tied with Texas's 13th congressional district as being the most Republican districts in the United States.〔Cook Partisan Voting Index〕 ==Character== Once encompassing all of Birmingham and Jefferson County, Alabama's 6th Congressional District is now the suburban Birmingham-area district with nearly all of the urban precincts having been removed over the past couple of decades. A continual process of redistricting by Democratic state governments has seen the 6th District take on an increasingly unusual shape and becoming one of the most Republican districts in the country, voting 78% for George W. Bush in 2004. John McCain swept the district in 2008, taking 75.91% of the vote while Barack Obama received 23.28%. The demography of the district consists mostly of middle and upper middle-class white-collar families who work in Birmingham. Increasingly, the population of the Birmingham districts has become racially polarized, with most whites moving from the city to the suburbs mostly in nearby Shelby County (which both grew by 44% in the 1990s and has become more than 90% white), whilst the African American population has remained largely in urban areas. Once the vanguard district for steel production and metalworking in the South, the economy of the district in recent years has centered on the banking industry (Birmingham being the second largest banking area in the South) and health care/medical research. Socially the district remains conservative; however, fiscal conservatism is the most salient feature of this district. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alabama's 6th congressional district」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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