CELINA, Tenn. (WTVF) — For Carol Abney and her Clay County neighbors, a recent purchase by out-of-state investors on the Celina town square has them preparing for a possible battle with people they consider to be political extremists.

"We are welcoming to a point, but we are not going to let people come here and completely take over our government and tell us how we live,” Abney told NewsChannel 5 Investigates.

Clay County, which is located on the Tennessee-Kentucky line about two hours northeast of Nashville, is the latest area to be targeted by the developers who are behind efforts to establish a far-right Christian nationalist community in neighboring Jackson County.

There, the developers have bought up hundreds of acres of land that they hope to turn into homes for people who think

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