I'm not sure why but Tennessee's suburbs still generally remain obnoxiously red. But it's not as if Tennessee is any more evangelical or rural than say Georgia or North Carolina. Maybe Tennessee remains more largely rural and exurban, but Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga and Knoxville are all growing cities and from what I've read and hea…
I'm not sure why but Tennessee's suburbs still generally remain obnoxiously red. But it's not as if Tennessee is any more evangelical or rural than say Georgia or North Carolina. Maybe Tennessee remains more largely rural and exurban, but Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga and Knoxville are all growing cities and from what I've read and heard they tend to attract young professionals with their culture and atmosphere. It may just be the voting history of the state still being ancestrally Republican vs North Carolina. Georgia by contrast, with Atlanta has a far larger metro of over 6 million people combined with a massive influx of Northern and younger professional transplants.
The eastern third's one of the most ancestrally GOP parts of the country, the western third's got roughly a 1:1 correlation of race and party, and the middle third's still got densely populated rurals to pair with burbs whose population is heavily of Southern origin.
East Tennessee supported the Union during the Civil War. Thus they have essentially always been hardcore Republican. Even when the Republican Party in most of the south was nonexistent due to the "Party of Lincoln" association.
I think it's mostly because Tennessee is just like Florida, a sponge for tax-averse right-wing refugees from blue states. The same types of people moving to Fort Myers, Florida, are also moving to Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Hmmm. That is a problem, especially considering TN is more red than FL.
On the other hand, Gloria Johnson has been focusing on meeting voters in all-99 county diners over a month ago. She’s certainly doing effective retail politics, even if Marsha Blackburn is heavily favored to win the race.
Agree, it’s within the realm of possibility that TN becomes the Republicans biggest “safe” state depending on TX and FL trends. That really doesn’t put them in a great position to win the presidency. Will be interesting to watch the trends of Nashville to see if it could ever become an Atlanta and make the state competitive.
I know a right wing retired Latino cop from LA who moved his family of 6 to Tennessee for exactly that reason. From social media the fairly moderate adult daughter married an undereducated local RWNJ and swung seriously rightward from the multiple degreed L.A. party girl I knew.
On the other hand, my fairly liberal “aunt” (who moved from WV to CA in the early 80’s) also sold her place in OC and moved back East to Tennessee in retirement, unfortunately she has since lost a long battle with cancer.
I'm not sure why but Tennessee's suburbs still generally remain obnoxiously red. But it's not as if Tennessee is any more evangelical or rural than say Georgia or North Carolina. Maybe Tennessee remains more largely rural and exurban, but Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga and Knoxville are all growing cities and from what I've read and heard they tend to attract young professionals with their culture and atmosphere. It may just be the voting history of the state still being ancestrally Republican vs North Carolina. Georgia by contrast, with Atlanta has a far larger metro of over 6 million people combined with a massive influx of Northern and younger professional transplants.
I guess we’ll just have to see how Gloria Johnson turns out voters.
I’d imagine we’ll also see decent turnout among Democrats even if we’re obviously not going to see Harris win TN.
The eastern third's one of the most ancestrally GOP parts of the country, the western third's got roughly a 1:1 correlation of race and party, and the middle third's still got densely populated rurals to pair with burbs whose population is heavily of Southern origin.
East Tennessee supported the Union during the Civil War. Thus they have essentially always been hardcore Republican. Even when the Republican Party in most of the south was nonexistent due to the "Party of Lincoln" association.
I think it's mostly because Tennessee is just like Florida, a sponge for tax-averse right-wing refugees from blue states. The same types of people moving to Fort Myers, Florida, are also moving to Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Hmmm. That is a problem, especially considering TN is more red than FL.
On the other hand, Gloria Johnson has been focusing on meeting voters in all-99 county diners over a month ago. She’s certainly doing effective retail politics, even if Marsha Blackburn is heavily favored to win the race.
https://www.votegloriajohnson.com/events/
Agree, it’s within the realm of possibility that TN becomes the Republicans biggest “safe” state depending on TX and FL trends. That really doesn’t put them in a great position to win the presidency. Will be interesting to watch the trends of Nashville to see if it could ever become an Atlanta and make the state competitive.
I know a right wing retired Latino cop from LA who moved his family of 6 to Tennessee for exactly that reason. From social media the fairly moderate adult daughter married an undereducated local RWNJ and swung seriously rightward from the multiple degreed L.A. party girl I knew.
On the other hand, my fairly liberal “aunt” (who moved from WV to CA in the early 80’s) also sold her place in OC and moved back East to Tennessee in retirement, unfortunately she has since lost a long battle with cancer.
I'm sorry.
Is Governor Bill Lee running TN like Governor Ron DeSantis? Or have TN's tax incentives been in the state for a long time?