I wouldn't stop sporting events. Too many schools require the revenue. Don't desire too may of the Calis moving here. They carry the parasitic zombie virus endemic to Democrats. The businesses and money, certainly. When, I was a kid, Alabama's major exports were agricultural -- cotton, corn, canola oil, soybeans, for instance. We've added pork (not the DC kind) and poultry. However, the major Alabama export is now cars. Thank you, UAW, for nothing! Huntsville aka Pentagon South is becoming a silicon valley.
We not only buy guns in the South, we now make them.http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/04/gun_manufacturers_move_south_r.html Note the map doesn't include Panther Arms in Huntsville.