The first sentence in your respose, "too bright to be from Alabama" shows me that you might like to meet ol' Bubba and his brother Billy Bob....perhaps they ain't so bright, but you will see stars when they are done with you. If you intend to be a windbag, leave your disparaging remarks at home.
Your defensive response to a statement that was obviously intended to be humorous led me to take a little look at how Alabama does in comparison to other states.
If you have a look here, http://www.msubillings.edu/caer/quality_rankings_of_education_in.htm
I am sure you can be proud that in most cases at least 4 other states consistently do worse than Alabama in education.
So, I guess I should congratulate you on your ability read and write; (that punctuation mark is called a semi-colon) since according to you, all that Bubba and Billybob know how to do is fight.