In the vicinity of and Mobile County . This area is characterized by extensive Wetlands , but also by long, sandy Beaches which are very conducive to Tourism . Many deluxe Golf courses have been developed in the area in recent decades. However, this region more commonly takes South Alabama as a better-known name for the region. This is reflected in the name of the University Of South Alabama located in Mobile.
Because Mobile and Baldwin Counties tend to use South Alabama with exclusivity, a second and more appropriate use of "Lower Alabama" is to refer to the other parts of southern Alabama, including the Florida-border counties from song parody of Bruce Springsteen 's Born In The U.S.A. ). Further evidence of this region's claim was the "University of Lower Alabama" as one of the considered name changes by Troy State University before it became Troy University .
Finally, Lower Alabama is also a slang term used by some Floridians to refer to the part of Florida directly south of Alabama, especially the area around Pensacola, and eastward to Destin and Panama City. This is often jokingly shortened to "L.A.", though this term is also used extensively by Alabamians too. The large number of Alabama vacationers who frequent the Florida Panhandle lend some validity to Floridians making this claim.
