mrs. thornton, who lived over here on beech street because her husband had been killed at sharpsburg. lee visited her home in farmville. but she had 4 young boys. he said they had their best chance to get out of here and go to brazil. the local minister told him to leave parishioners alone. the reality is that southern presbyterian denomination opened up a foreign mission field in brazil but it was really to be a chaplaincy outreach to our kind of people there. professor clabough: thank you. >> i had a quick question. do you think the majority of the people left for political reasons? not wanting to live under yankee rule or was it economics, perhaps hoping to establish a slave institution in brazil or elsewhere? do you have information about the states that they were more likely to have left? deep south like alabama or mississippi or upper south? i would think it would be deep south but i am guessing. professor clabough: let me start with your last question. yes, it was predominantly deep south states where the brazilian government advertised. the ports lended themselves to transport

mr. thornton with the service that he seeks. but they're prohibited from doing so by tennessee's bureaucratic requirements. eva van hook is here. eva? eva's from bradley county, tennessee. she can tell you, she's told me she can tell you how she had to drive her son to their church, or her son can drive himself, to watch online material that is assigned as a part of his high school curriculum. she has to go 12 miles so that her son can see the biology videos that he needs to have for the next day's classes. because state rules keep her from getting the faster and cheaper internet service that chattanooga epb wants to offer. eva, thanks for joining us. now, the commission respects the important role of state governments in our federal system. and we don't take lightly the matter of preempting state laws. but it is a well-established principle that state laws that limit the exercise of federal policy may be subject to preemption in appropriate circumstances. the the human faces of those who are condemned to second-rate broadband a