Vote for me I live nearer to you than him!! That is so idiotic.
That is often a serious issue. In this district, you have rural interests not wanting to be overwhelmed by the Memphis suburban interests. Across the border in TN, we have a similar problem in the ludicrously gerrymandered GOP 7th, which stretches from the East Memphis suburbs all the way to the wealthiest precincts in Nashville (designed to corral all Republicans for that 200+ mile stretch in one seat and keep them out of the surrounding 9th, 8th, 6th and 5th districts). The Rep. is from the Nashville suburbs and Memphis is angry that they’re not represented, and so Blackburn is getting a primary challenger that is essentially running bacause of that (we’re not likely to lose the seat, even if it gets brutal, but it does deplete us of funds we could be using for other seats).