“Tennessee’s racist. Period. Period. Like, Tennessee is racist,” Lamar said in the video. “Most of the Tennesseans who voted Republican are uneducated.”

Lamar added, “White men voted Republican over — well over 60 or 70 percent, so obviously that’s a particular base of people who believe in superiority.”

Tennessee residents responded back to Lamar with outrage.

“Tennessee is not racist. It’s the people that’s in Tennessee that’s racist,” said Ron Burgess.

“I think that our country, in general, has a long way to go, but you can’t make a blanket statement like that, you know, so I just — I totally disagree with that,” said Rachel Drozinski.

Lamar has now apologized for her comments.

“We want to make sure we don’t over-generalize groups of people. For that, we sincerely apologize,” Lamar said.

She added, “What we have seen is that many of the folks who voted Republican based their judgment on racially charged rhetoric that was coming down from the White House.”

Lamar was asked if she believed that Tennessee is racist? Lamar responded: “I think Tennessee is very polarized and I think that we need to continue to have conversations about how Tennessee can work on behalf of everybody.”

Lamar said in her new role she will do what’s best for everyone in House District 91.

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