Editing Mountain Brook, Alabama (section)

==Cultural references==
In ''[[South and West: From a Notebook]]'', [[Joan Didion]] writes, "It is said that the dead center of Birmingham society is the southeast corner of the locker room at the Mountain Brook country club." She adds, "it is hard to make the connection between this Birmingham and that of [[Bull Connor]]."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Didion|first1=Joan|title=South and West: From a Notebook|date=2017|publisher=4th Estate|location=London, U.K.|isbn=978-0-00-825717-0|page=70}}</ref>

During his [[1970 Alabama gubernatorial election|1970 gubernatorial campaign]], [[George Wallace]] derisively referred to Mountain Brook as "where the rich folks live in the suburbs up across the mountain from Birmingham."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Robertson|first1=Campbell|last2=Martin|first2=Jonathan|title=Alabama, Despite History of Unruly Politics, Has 'Never Seen Anything Like This'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/09/us/politics/even-in-unruly-alabama-politics-never-seen-anything-like-this.html|access-date=December 12, 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 9, 2017}}</ref>