Best, sorry to stray from your thread, but JT is using an excellent example of leftist "magical thinking." To illustrate, he states that proximity with Republican controlled states causes Memphis's troubles. Instead of observing the slpw decline of a once prosperous and safe city. Like so many of our larger cities, the declines have one common factor -- decades of Democrat controlled government. Similarly, because Republicans have controlled the state government for a couple of years and the US Senate for 14 months, they must be the cause of all the troubles accumulated over years. Dayyum, the Salem witch hunters would blush at that kind of "logic."