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[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

How is it trending? Shelby County (the only in TN where Kerry did better than Gore) gets more Democratic by the day as conservative suburbanites move out. We just went majority black so don't expect it to go Republican ever again.

You seem awfully excited about our tax base moving out.

It won't seem so funny when you too have to move to Fayette, Tipton, or Desoto.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

I'm not especially thrilled by white flight but I don't see any way to stop it.  It definately is responsible for the changing politics in TN-9, which is gerrymandered to be uber-black and uber-Democratic, and Shelby County as a whole. As for me, you couldn't pay me enough to live outside of the 240 loop, let alone in the exurban hell that is developing in DeSoto, Fayette, and Tipton counties. My mom taught high school in Fayette County for 25 years and I have distant family in DeSoto. Words cannot begin to express how nauseating these places are.

yay, you rule for hating suburbs as much as me!

It's funny, but one of my favorite neighborhoods, Midtown Memphis, is an old early 20th century suburb. I just feel like areas need at least a few decades before they stop feeling so sterile. East Memphis (1950s and 1960s suburbia) is also really nice even though it's very conservative. The trouble with areas built recently is that there seems to have been no planning. Subdivisions and strip malls pop up randomly along arteries that are way too big. Anyhow, we've had this discussion eight thousand times, so let's please not start the "sububz suk!!!111; no citys r 2 scary" stuff. I think we all know how everybody feels.

EXACTLY!  Bad developers and their accomplices in government develop land for temporary profit rather than long-term sustainability.  It is sad to see neighborhoods destroyed by this constant cycle of destruction that has been going on for at least 40 years.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Don, what part of town do you live in? I'm in East Memphis, near Walnut Grove and White Station.

Northeast Memphis, near Whitten.

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Keep in mind our local Democratic party nominated a candidate just a few years ago that wanted to sell off one of our most treasured possessions - a large public park - to developers to build luxury homes.  No thanks, that's not my bag.