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.
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.
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.