Well to be a little bit more honest about it, Space Force really isn't anything more than a name change for Air Force Space Command, which is currently and always has been stationed in Colorado, already has all of the facilities, equipment, and security (Under a fucking mountain) required to do it's job.
All of the space industry stuff in Alabama is political; all of it. Huntsville and its surroundings like Athens, Decatur, Cullman are extremely rural. It is not a place where anyone in their right mind would choose to open a commercial space business. The local population does not have a sufficient pool of highly skilled and educated people to fill the highly demanding positions required in that industry. The people that are there working on NASA contracts are almost all recruited from elsewhere, and most of them hate living there-- most leave the second their contract ends.
But contractors building missile parts have a big political influence, and apparently it was enough to get the previous administration to make pretty much the stupidest decision possible.