Tennesee not budging on border dispute

Tennessee lawmakers aren’t budging about the redrawing of their boundary with Georgia. Tennessee house members voted unanimously yesterday against joining a boundary commission proposed by Georgia lawmakers.

The Georgia Legislature passed a resolution last month to establish the commission to try to rectify a 19^th century survey that placed Georgia’s northern line just short of the Tennessee River.

Tennessee lawmakers say the boundary has been set for almost 200 years, and there’s no valid reason to revisit the issue.

To avoid the courts, both states and Congress would have to agree to a border change.