re: Ole Miss police looking for men who defaced James Meredith's statue

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I don't know why this thread is suddenly dissing on Memphis. Is it a racism thing?

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Tennessee is called the three states of Tennessee for a reason. It wasn't that long ago when one of the governor's finally had the signs that said, "Welcome to the three states of Tennessee" ripped down and replaced because the East, Middle, West regionalism really is old nowadays. We've always had regional differences and we're the only state where East, West, Middle have legal weight as each grand division is legally entitled to things like regionally balanced judicial appointments and so on per the state constitution but most of the Memphis hate comes from the Boss Crump days when Crump managed to control the entire state using his base of power in Memphis.

But lately it seems the anti-Memphis thing is just code for those who hate "blacks" and/or "democrats." I hear a whole lot of old people bash Memphis but not many of other age ranges unless they're lily white ultra-conservatives of the John Birch Society/White Citizen's Council variety who're just masking they're dislike for black folks.