First postsemgirl- Louisville is a great little town. It had a lot more jews years ago but a nice community now. The Rabbi at the Anshei is a Rabbi Litwin. Sorry in advance if I misspelled it. A side note my fathers ZT”L family built that shul back who knows how long ago. Some of the family is still there.
Now for alwaysruns- I was raised in Memphis. Not Egypt, but Tennessee. Anyway back in the 60’s and 70’s it was a very vibrant friendly community. I would even have considered it a black hat community. The yeshiva of the south was run by the Belsky family.and it had a yeshiva gedola, which i considered sort of an offshoot of Chaim Berlin. There was also a girl school, mikvaos and kosher restaurants. Not bad for a weird southern town.