Alabama and Georgia — neighboring states and anchors of the Deep South — share many things: similar cuisine, similar climates, similar history.

But as the rivalry which occasionally rears between its college football teams shows, there are differences between them, too. And some Atlantans have plenty to say on how they feel about Alabama.

How well do you know the two states? Can you place these fun facts, with a hat tip to 50states.com, with the right state?

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After surviving Andersonville Prison, Union Army veteran Thomas O’Dea completed this drawing of it from memory in 1885. “In all the annals of civilization and barbarism, there never was, and I doubt never will be, such another place as Andersonville,” O’Dea wrote. “No truer sentence ever passed the lips of man, than when this was called the ‘Hell Upon Earth.’" (Courtesy National Park Service)

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