When the votes are finally counted Tuesday night, the outcome will be seen as one of two things. It will either be proof that Alabama will never loosen its Bible Belt, that its brand of white Christian identity politics is embedded so deep in the red soil that it cannot rise even from the muck of an accused child predator in its midst, or that the once-promised "New South" — defined by Jones' coalition of black voters and whites in places like Huntsville and Birmingham — is finally here to rescue the state that once gave America cross-burning and the bloodshed on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge from one more walk of shame in the national spotlight.