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

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well this is not true. Most folk in Tennessee don't like Memphis because of the crime and the national publicity memphis receives from said crime.

But I agree with that most old folk probably don't like it ebcause of the black people.

I personally have had a blast on Biel St., actively root for the Grizzlies, and played AAU in Memphis for quite some time.

I just like to rustle Rebelgators jimmies from time to time.

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Knoxville has a higher crime rate so why isn't it mentioned? I think the PR from 'crime' is just an excuse and most of the Memphis haters are a lot like Detroit haters -- white folks who fled the city and live in upper class suburbs. Nashville has a white flight/white school districts and private schools that opened to avoid too much color problem of its own but it's less extreme. It's odd but a lot of racism in TN is associated with upper middle and upper classes. I suppose that has something to do with the odd nature of our state's history but it is what it is so to speak.

To add to it, a lot of the Northern transplant are racist as hell. They're supplying a lot of new fresh blood in terms of bigots/racists.