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Lowndes County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2010 census, the population was 11,299.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/01/01085.html )〕 Its county seat is Hayneville.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county is named in honor of William Lowndes, a member of the United States Congress from South Carolina. Lowndes County is part of the Montgomery, AL Metropolitan Statistical Area. == History == Lowndes County was formed from Montgomery, Dallas and Butler counties, by an act of the Alabama General Assembly on January 20, 1830. The county is named for South Carolina statesman William Lowndes.〔("Lowndes County" ), Alabama Department of History and Archives〕 Following Reconstruction and years in which blacks continued to be elected to local office, the white-Democrat dominated state legislature gained passage of a new constitution in 1901 that effectively disfranchised most blacks and many poor whites. Requirements were added for payment of a cumulative poll tax before registering to vote, difficult for poor people to manage; and literacy tests (with a provision for a grandfather clause to exempt illiterate white voters from being excluded.) The number of black voters fell dramatically, as did poor white voters.〔Glenn Feldman, ''The Disfranchisement Myth: Poor Whites and Suffrage Restriction in Alabama,'' Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004, pp. 135–136〕 Population has declined by two thirds since the 1900 high of more than 35,000. The effects of mechanization and the boll weevil infestation, which decimated the cotton crops and reduced the need for farm labor in the 1920s and 1930s, caused the loss of jobs. Many blacks left the county in first half of the 20th century, in Great Migration to northern and midwestern industrial cities, where there were work opportunities. Young people continue to leave for towns and cities. 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「Lowndes County, Alabama」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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