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

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East TN people are weirder than Memphis people IMO

yall are backwards up in the tri-cities

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I consider the tri-cities Virginia. It's more like the Deep South than the rest of E. TN. Chattanooga is the same way. What's funny is that you can trace it back to the Civil War. Most of E. TN was pro-abolition and overwhelmingly pro-Union/anti-confederacy. 80 percent of East TN's voters voted against secession.

Check out this map of the secession vote (not a damn thing has changed):




Caption/Explanation: June 1861 Ordinance of Secession vote in East Tennessee. Counties shaded in maroon rejected secession by an 80% or greater margin. Counties in red rejected secession by a 51% to 79% margin. Counties in gray voted for secession. Counties in white didn't yet exist or their results are unknown.

Amazing how accurately you can predict the culture and voting habits of each county based on a map from a single vote in 1861 but you can.