Tennessee has been providing weird MOTR republicans since 1860
Sometime I’m glad they did.....
Not this time
Lamar doesn’t like Trump is my guess and sees him as uncouth etc
But he doesn’t want to be a pariah at home should he actually return here
So many of them retire to the DC area
The problem with Tennessee is it’s really three states
East which used to be unionist but now is staunchly southern but Appalachian
Middle which used to be rolling antebellum ...bucolic country sorta like Ireland as Cleburne said his last afternoon on this earth ...where I reside 1000 yards from where he fell and an area dominated by Austin like Nashville surrounded by conservative counties all at this moment invaded and I do mean invaded by non southerners..some good some not so good but they tend to migrate to Nashville proper ...tall and skinny house land on tear downs
And west tennessee which begins at the tennessee River and runs to Memphis and his kind of like an extension of Mississippi’s delta and hill country and is similar in demographics and voting
Tennessee has never been like Mississippi whites are or Alabama whites are
It’s always been more moderate
Beautifully written, it’s a keeper. Thank you.
I have never met a Tennessean that I haven’t liked. All of whom I have met seem to possess a solid amount of common sense in addition to an easy-going agreeable manner.