Wayne Flynt, a retired Alabama history professor, said that often the state's history books focus less on historical facts and more on culture. "If the history you're getting in Alabama is so different from the history they're getting everywhere else that it makes you a pariah, and an outcast, and at the cocktail parties it makes you sound like an idiot and people began point at you, and say, 'Oh, well you have to cut him some space, he's from Alabama.' Well, that's what you want. That's what yo