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Tennessee, a wide but short state in the United States, is the home of at least two former senators[1] that have since appeared on television and in films.
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Slogans
- Tennessean is Tennesbelieven!
- Tennessee, better than one through nineassee!
Claims to fame
Tennessee is home to one of the largest NASCAR stadiums in America, located in Bristol.
It also has BONAROO. One of the only good things about it.
Elvis sightings abound at Graceland in Memphis, and at trailer parks throughout the state.
Nashville is, of course, the capital of Country Music.
The snail darter made 80,000 jobs vanish! (According to some people. Actually, no it didn't. Tellico Dam was built anyway, so no construction workers lost their jobs, but the snail darter controversy created even more jobs for all the lawyers who had to fight the thing out in court. Win-win situation for everyone, and Tennessee still got a new dam!)
Tennessee was also home to the Scopes Monkey Trial.
Dr. Enuf (a soft drink/purported hangover cure/iodine supplement) is to upper east Tennessee/southwest Virginia what Moxie is to Maine and what Ale-8-One is to Kentucky. You can't buy it anywhere else so stock up when yer passin' thru, boys.
By far, however, the most incredible place in Tennessee is the Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge-Sevierville area. If you never go anyplace else in your life, go there. You will be amazed!
Flyaway in Pigeon Forge sucks. Try the wind tunnel in North Carolina instead, it's far better.
Politics
Strangely enough, although benefiting greatly from the Tennessee Valley Authority project, Tennessee is notoriously anti-New-Deal/government spending. Even their Democratic governor, Phil Bredesen (a moderate by U.S. standards) could not recover Tenn-Care. As a result, their health care system now really, really sucks, if it even exists. This is probably because Tennessee's economy is based on services and nasty chemicals, although several northern counties are involved in mining and agriculture.
More ugly politics
Although the Appalachian Mountain cities often tout themselves as never wanting to leave the USA, the fact is that these cities, most notoriously Erwin (which cemented black people as late as the 1990s, and also has a candidate for city council endorsed by the prominent Council of Conservative Citizens.[2]), often have a substantial KKK population. On the other hand, during the Civil War, Scott County seceded from both the Confederacy and the state of Tennessee to become the "Independent State of Scott", but alas, nobody noticed until sometime in the 1990s when the county government noticed this was still on the books and repealed their secession ordinance.
Wildlife and tourism
There are a lot of squirrels in Tennessee. Usually they plot and scheme to think up new and novel ways to raid bird feeders, but sometimes they take the occasional road trip to Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg to visit their favorite theme park, Dollywood.
Migratory patterns
Tennessee tends to get more northerners moving into the state compared with the rest of the South; thus you might actually meet a liberal there, especially in the Oak Ridge/Norris area, where major investments such as TVA and the Manhattan Project occurred. The four main cities (Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, and Chattanooga) are also hotbeds of liberalism, at least by Tennessee standards.
Footnotes
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