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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 10, 2022

Tennessee Republicans plan to divide Nashville into multiple congressional districts, House Speaker Cameron Sexton, R-Crossville, has told the Associated Press. The splitting of the district would likely mean that Republicans would control eight of Tennessee’s nine congressional districts, leaving one Democratic-leaning seat in Memphis. Longtime U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Nashville, has spent the past several months urging the state legislature not to split his district. The other member who may be opposed to the plan is U.S. Rep. Mark Green, R-Clarksville, who has said he could lose some of the wealthy, strongly Republican parts of his district. The Nashville Post has the story.