The Armchair Postmodernist Hillbilly has posted a nice little article about why Memphis is Memphis and will always be Memphis:

There has always been lots of discussion around the economic surge in Nashville and why Memphis has been mired in stagnation. Many people blame “white flight”…the movement of the upper middle class east of the city, to Germantown and Collierville and south to Desoto County.
But in reality Memphis voters, whoever they are, have held the future of Memphis in their hands for years

Click on over to his site to read the whole thing.