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A dying city, suffering from corrupt leadership and high taxes; run by Democrats.
1 posted on 09/27/2007 1:27:31 AM PDT by zipper
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Can anyone name a high-violent crime area that is NOT a Democrat stronghold?


2 posted on 09/27/2007 2:27:20 AM PDT by traditional1 ( Fred Thompson-The ONLY electable Republican Candidate)
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A dying city, suffering from corrupt leadership and high taxes; run by Democrats”

Same description for Los Angeles.


3 posted on 09/27/2007 2:33:37 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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“1,262.7 violent crimes per 100,000 residents,”

My little town in MS has a rate of 980.9 per 100,000. Doing our best to catch Memphis.


4 posted on 09/27/2007 4:20:32 AM PDT by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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To: zipper

This follows the same line as a thread a week or so ago. Memphis was discussed as being a tourist destination. I’ve never been there and now I don’t want to go there either.


5 posted on 09/27/2007 4:23:56 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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I lived there once, so glad and lucky to get out. Roving gangs are like an infestation of insects. What memphis needs is a good exterminator.


7 posted on 09/27/2007 4:40:45 AM PDT by JamesA
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A dying city, suffering from corrupt leadership and high taxes; run by Democrats.

True, but they make the best BBQ ribs on the planet.....

8 posted on 09/27/2007 4:54:44 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (Thinking of voting Democrat? Wake up and smell the Socialism!)
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Ford family’s fault!

LLS


9 posted on 09/27/2007 4:59:40 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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It is safer in Baghdad.

We need to pull out of Memphis, LA, Detroit, Cincy, St. Louis, Nawlins .... on and on and on ...immediately. there is no hope ....

democrapism/liberalism/socialism (same thing) running amok.

Someone answer this simple question? After a 100 years of democrat rule, shouldn't’t a city be utopia and spilling over with wealth? That is what the democrats claim! Our war on poverty ....40 year and 7 trillion dollars and yet we don’t pull out?????? A tiger is a tiger. A moron is a moron......

13 posted on 09/27/2007 5:42:35 AM PDT by HiramQuick
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Isn’t Memphis the city where Elvis spent his childhood days ? Who woulda thunk...


19 posted on 09/27/2007 9:01:17 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
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I was a Mormon missionary in Memphis in the late '80s. There were definitely some scary parts of town where you just did not go.

One really funny thing was that our apartment got broken into at some point, but nothing was stolen. Apparently, the would-be burglars didn't know how little Mormon missionaries have in the way of possessions. I guess they didn't want to steal any copies of The Book of Mormon. LOL!

20 posted on 09/27/2007 9:03:32 AM PDT by TChris (Governments don't RAISE money; they TAKE it.)
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I’m sitting in Memphis proper right now with a loaded .45 out in the truck.

Every night the news has a car jacking, murder rape or something, yet King Willie will probably get back in.


23 posted on 09/27/2007 9:08:14 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (Join me for the Million Minutemen March --- Summer 2008!!)
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so why does memphis have these problems?

somebody please explain......and don’t give me the “Oh, Democrats made folks do this”

like they have no control over their own actions.....that is just as bigoted as what the Klan would say

the culture is laregly broken and no one has the balls to try to fix it....they just lament and even refuse to talk about what has happened...for fear

something bad went wrong somewhere

many of us down here have lived this now for two generations and Memphis is but a glaring example...one of many


30 posted on 09/27/2007 9:38:34 AM PDT by wardaddy (if God is your co-pilot, you need to switch seats)
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The leaders are a product of and thrive in that culture.

But the culture selects them, they are a product of the culture.

Folks who say otherwise are wishful thinking and simply saying broken cultures are not capable anything....like they are malleable mush to be exploited and can only be effected from the outside....that to me is no less bigoted than white supremacy talk.


31 posted on 09/27/2007 9:43:46 AM PDT by wardaddy (if God is your co-pilot, you need to switch seats)
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Supposedly there’s 100,000 illegal aliens in Memphis ...could that be part of the problem?

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2007/sep/25/hispanics-are-seen-but-unseen/

Oh and uh, ICE is opening a new office for the fugitive illegal aliens in Memphis

http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070927/NEWS01/709270403/1006/NEWS


34 posted on 09/27/2007 9:38:00 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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