Anderson County Tennessee is a VERY unusual county. THE Oak Ridge, of nuke fame, is in Anderson County and as one would expect Oak Ridge has a very highly educated population. Oak Ridge also has among the highest (if not the highest), property taxes in Tennessee and is has strict zoning regs. The rest of the county is pretty much what you would expect to find in a rural East Tennessee County. The County thus has a split personality, neither gets along with or understands the other. There are all sort of weird and bizarre courthouse politics and open hostilities between elected officials. No behavior seems to result in an official being thrown out of office.
Sounds like you're familiar with the area. I used to live in Oak Ridge. Family moved there in 1967. Graduated from ORHS. I agree - the county is an interesting mix of rural and high-tech PhD's.