And not all the infected are in Alabama. Actually, the term Old Confederacy ("Dixie", for short) should be substituted for "Alabama".) But that is only the locus of the infection. To borrow an academic concept from early 20th century Regional Geography, "Dixie" is the Core of a Region, where the property of interest being mapped is in the majority. Surrounding it is the Domain, where the property of interest is in the plurality, less than the majority but still more than any other faction. Surrounding that is the Hinterland, where the property of interest is present but of lesser influence than most of the other factions. Beyond that is an indefinite zone (I guess we could call it the Pale) where the property of interest is present only in trace quantities.