This street is home to two cities with opposite laws and politics

Imagine living in a city where following the rules on one side of the street could land you in jail on the other.

That's the case for residents of Bristol, Tennessee and Bristol, Virginia: two cities that share not only a name, but State Street, a main thoroughfare.

They have a common water supply, hospital and library, but have their own emergency services and city councils.

Former mayor of Bristol, Tennessee, Mark Hutton says the cities share an almost sibling-like connection.

"We're intensely loyal to one another when it comes to people trying to break us down, but we can scrap with the best of them when we need to," Hutton tells Annabel Crabb's Civic Duty.

Hutton lives in Tennessee but buys his groceries and cigars in Virginia, because it's cheaper due to lower sales tax. But he's