We would add them to Illinois with some creative map drawing

thank you

If you leave Tennessee, you've succeeded.

Although technically I guess it depends on which direction you go when departing... some could lead to epic fails.

Chris Herrington, USA TODAY NETWORK
Published 9:01 a.m. CT April 18, 2018 | Updated 10:25 a.m. CT April 18, 2018

... The rationale for this vote, of course, is to punish Memphis for finding a legal route around the so-called Tennessee Historical Commission, somehow populated by members of the fringe Sons of Confederate Veterans, which attempted to block the city’s removal of these Confederate monuments, like so many governors before a schoolhouse door.

This is bad faith following bad faith. The so-called Tennessee Historical Commission squandered its legitimacy, or perhaps never had any, by stamping its name on historical elisions that carried racist intent and then attempting to block correctives ...

The Nathan Bedford Forrest monument, dedicated in 1905, and maintained by an organization rooted in Lost Cause mythologies, was a Jim Crow monument. It did not represent Civil War history. It represented a renewed commitment to white supremacy in the aftermath of Reconstruction. It once represented the voting majorities of Memphis. It did so no longer.

That sorry Jefferson Davis statue, dedicated in 1964, was not a Civil War monument. In fact, it obscured the real and rich Civil War history that happened on the land around it. It was a segregationist monument. It represented a resistance to integration and the civil rights movement of its time. It was a contemporary expression of the power structure in Memphis. So was its removal ...

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/local/the-901/2018/04/18/memphis-punishment-removing-confederate-statues-tennessee-lawmakers-embarrassed-themselves/527492002/

represent? Cities need to grow, to move into the future, to attract a diverse and vibrant population to stay viable, and they can't do that when they are run by petty, small minded politicians who are still reliving an alt history that only exists in their imagination.

talking about how asinine this was and I guess someone started a Gofundme to try to get the money through citizen donations to show we don't need the House money

I was born in the wrong era. Thanks for posting!

of the first half of the 20th century, during which the city had a commission form of government. He also dominated Tennessee state politics for most of the time from the 1920s to the 1940s. He was elected and served as mayor of Memphis from 1910 through 1915, and again briefly in 1940. However, he effectively appointed every mayor elected from 1915 to 1954 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._H._Crump

... Crump was a staunch segregationist ... http://www.memphis.edu/benhooks/mapping-civil-rights/crump-era.php

POSTED BY JOHN BRANSTON ON FRI, FEB 8, 2013 AT 1:34 PM

The statue of Jefferson Davis was erected in Confederate Park in downtown Memphis in 1964 ... Davis, the first and only president of the Confederacy, lived in Memphis from 1875 to 1878. The drive to honor the "forgotten man" with "a magnificent bronze statue" began in 1956, although the concept was approved by political boss E. H. Crump before he died in 1954. The United Daughters of the Confederacy, later assisted by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, were the driving force. The first donation was $26. City officials blessed the project in 1962 ...

https://www.memphisflyer.com/CityBeatBlog/archives/2013/02/08/a-short-history-of-the-jefferson-davis-statue-in-confederate-park