Political offices you can vote on include the Sheriff, the Constable (serves warrants and is the only person who can arrest the Sheriff), Tax Collector, Tax Assessor.
Back in Tennessee ...
In Memphis
Beale Street, where a boy from Tupelo, Mississippi, Elvis Presley, became famous.
Saint Elvis, the Biker
From the railroad streetcar in Memphis.
This garrulous streetcar conductor is from Kurdistan but lived in the Memphis for many years. His accent, both Middle Eastern and Southern, was unusual.
The Gibson Guitar Factory, where country-style guitars are made.
Gluing the fretboard to the body.
Gluing the sides of the body.
A luthier using a laser measurement device to rework a fretboard that is not completely flat. Like the Gibson company itself, this technician moved from Kalamazoo, Michigan to Memphis, Tennessee.
Nowadays, it's done with software, but he is also trained in manual woodworking tools.
So, the South evolves from slaves picking cotton while singing work songs to modern technicians using software to make electric guitars.
This concludes this visit to the Deep South of Alabama/Mississippi and the "border state" of Tenessee.