And Mobile is well on its way to becoming another, even bigger Prichard. That is exactly what I told a city council candidate that came around knocking on doors just before I moved away.
I wouldn’t go that far. Mobile is at least a place people want to visit and a center of business for the region. Prichard has absolutely nothing going for it. Had it been annexed by Mobile in the ‘40s it might’ve been saved (or at least kept from total ruination), but it’s just a backwater with a dead downtown, high unemployment and crime and demographics to rival Gary, Indiana.