Alabama residents extremely tribal due to lack of national mobility
which explains why they are more likely to back their boy and ignore the news.
http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/youre-not-from-around-here-are-you/
Alabama is in the top 10 states where the vast majority of residents are native-born.
Along with LA, MI, OH, WI, PA, MS, IA, KY, WV. Yup. Frumpville. All are 70% and up for native-born.
CA, VT, NJ, all in the low 50's. I think it's safe to say that the isolation and poverty of much of couthern states could provide a harbor for ill-informed resentments, and the belief in the fake-news meme.
So, Moore's voters aren't all supporting a pedophile: Many of them just don't believe the reports, and cling to his identity as a hyper-christian zealot. Because that's what happens in alabama.
While 86% of alabamans identify as christian, they are feeling a recent decline, and feel threatened. http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2015/05/us_religious_landscape.html
While the Southern United States remains a region with relatively high religious affiliation and practice, the Bible Belt is beginning to fray.
So, Alabamans feel they have bigger problems than worrying about a few teenage girls from decades ago: Their way of life is threatened, and they want to hang on any way they can. Roy is their anchor back to the past.
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since rent in a closet sized NYC apartment is more than a trailer park in Alabama 
of Alabama, 1979 to 1997, who voted against Reagan-appointee Sessions for federal district court judge in 1986:
https://medium.com/@nmeyersohn/alabama-senator-who-voted-against-jeff-sessions-in-1986-once-said-he-probably-would-have-voted-for-a9ec6817d500
This also turned up:
But, he said, "we live in a nation that daily is trying to heal the scars that have occurred in the past. We're trying to heal problems that still show negative and ugly aspects in our world that we live in today, and perhaps racism is one of the great scars and one of the most serious illnesses that we suffer from still today."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howell_Heflin
