Alabama.

Located in the southeastern United States, Alabama's nicknames have included the Cotton Plantation State, the Camellia State, and the Heart of Dixie. Alabama borders Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south and Mississippi to the west. Georgia is to its east and Tennessee to its north. In 1819, Alabama became the twenty-second state admitted to the Union. On January 11, 1861, however, the state seceded and became a "Sovereign and Independent State" in the Confederate States of America. It was in this state that the Confederate constitution was written during the US Civil War. It rejoined the Union in February 1868.