actually, as I understand it, most people in Nashville don't even listen to country music..something like 20%...
Nashville has maybe the least inner city crime of any large Southern city.
The public secondary schools are shot except for I hear...a couple of magnet schools.
Nashville only has a few large pockets that are truly South Bronx rough but they bus problem kids all over town. There was a shooting recently at a high school that is literally in a neighborhood with million dollar homes and when asked who did it the principal replied that the violence was the work of Bordeaux kids (minority) in gangs who were bused in to meet racial quotas. Simply, the truth. He was demoted and transferred and a minority principal brought in. That is just how it is.
But it is not nearly as bad as Memphis for example.
I work in the public here with my businesses. The problems with the schools notwithstanding, the biggest source of irritation for me insofar as theft and vandalism and "problems" are white trash gangstas.....feral looking creatures with shaved heads and loads of attitude who have actually lost the ability to speak the King's English.
I have a deep loathing for them.