E TN open carry, CCW permits easy to get, up in the Smokies Mtns. Don’t forget you will need to become a Prepper, guns, bows, water and filter system, food, seeds, Vehicle pre chips. Horses, chickens, meds, advanced First Aid. Read some EMP OR PANDEMIC SI-FI, gives you a good idea of what to expect. Stay away from Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga areas ..BLUE.
WA is a liberal H hole.
I’m originally from NC so familiar with that neck of the woods. Does east TN (west side of the mountains) get a lot of tornadoes and bad storms? Seems that the mountains make the weather quite different between western NC and eastern TN.