Mobile is ‘bigger than Birmingham': Does size really matter?
The last time Mobile was bigger than Birmingham in population, commercial car sales were just beginning, Teddy Roosevelt was president, and Joe Cai...
The last time Mobile was bigger than Birmingham in population, commercial car sales were just beginning, Teddy Roosevelt was president, and Joe Cain -- the Mobilian credited with reviving Mardi Gras after the Civil War -- was still alive. But for the past 123 years, Birmingham simply had more people than Mobile. That was until Tuesday when Mobile added 19,789 new residents in a single day with an annexation vote – leapfrogging both Birmingham and Montgomery into the position of second most populous city in Alabama with about 204,600 residents.