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2. There are 3 Tennessees (3 stars in the flag)

Reply to D. Spaulding (Original post)

Sun Sep 14, 2025, 11:42 AM

Sep 14

Eastern - dominated by Knoxville
Middle- Nashville
Western - Memphis.

Remember the members of the state legislature who got kicked out….well the non-white ones. The white lady wasn’t expelled. The ones kicked out were from Western Tennessee 😉

Gov. Bill Lee (R) has no problem with the Guard patrolling Memphis. It also is a red state Trump can use to divert the obvious moves on cities 😉 in blue states.

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