Travel ban popular in Trump's strongest Tennessee county


              President Donald Trump smiles as he speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, to announce Judge Neil Gorsuch as his nominee for the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
President Donald Trump smiles as he speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, to announce Judge Neil Gorsuch as his nominee for the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

President Trump's first 100 days

WAYNESBORO, Tenn. -- One of the common posts that shot across social media after President Trump targeted seven predominantly Muslim nations for a temporary ban on visa entry goes like this:

"The people angry at Trump's order ride subways & buses with Muslims every day. The people cheering it have never met one.''

Well, welcome to Wayne County, which led Tennessee in giving 86 percent of its votes to Trump, where just 1 percent of its 17,000 residents are foreign-born, and where a spot check Tuesday turned up no one who has met a person of the Muslim faith, at least not inside Wayne County.

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