http://www.town-hall-meetings.com Find a local Town Hall Meeting in the United States of America Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:08:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.town-hall-meetings.com/memphis-tennessee/ http://www.town-hall-meetings.com/memphis-tennessee/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:59:21 +0000 admin http://www.town-hall-meetings.com/?p=36 The Memphis Tennessee town hall meeting saw a crowd of about 500 people. Police were called out because of the heated debate back and forth between supporters and protestors of the health care reform bill. The meeting was hosted by U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen a Democrat from the 9th District of Memphis Tennessee.  In Memphis the nearly all-white audience was not a snapshot of the mostly African-American 9th District that Cohen represents. According to the 2007 American Community Survey, the city’s population was 32.8% White (30.2% non-Hispanic-White alone), 63.1% Black or African American, 0.6% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.7 Asian, 0.1% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, 2.9% from some other race and 1.2% from two or more races. 4.6% of the total population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

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