Mississippi legislators hold redistricting town hall in Southaven
Mississippi residents listen as audience members speak during a state redistricting town hall in Southaven on Thursday, August 27, 2026. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
About 300 Mississippians on vastly different sides of the state’s redistricting fight packed Northwest Community College’s Southaven campus Thursday night, Aug. 27, to present their opinion on a simple question: What is fair?
Most of the visibly conservative speakers — who all wore bright red to show their party affiliation — argued that fair means the state legislature should not consider race as it gears up to potentially redraw the state’s congressional, legislative and state Supreme Court lines in the near future. Others said the opposite, urging the elected leaders at the front of the room to hold off until 2030, when Mississippi would be legally required to redistrict anyway.
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Aarron Fleming
Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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