The TN Republican Party is rooted in the eastern regions, where it has spent the last 150 years fossilizing into a political machine like the Dems have in a big city.
When the Civil War began, eastern TN had no use for the Confederacy and they aligned with the Union-Republicans.
Yeppers
My Bradley County was a Union county..
Damn them there North Aggressors..
:)
There Valleys and other areas of pro Southern sentiment
And they fought
It was like Alvin Yorks challenge of bottomland versus top land
Bottomland bigger farms more pro Southern
The other two GOPe centers are fancy zip codes in Nashville and Franklin areas
And Lookout Mt. Long home to GOPe leaders and the Corker power base
It’s why DeVaney moved from Belle Meade to Lookout Mt to run the GOPe and Corkers party administration
And this is the primary man with means challenger to the GOPe
http://www.adisgruntledrepublican.com/2014/07/andy-millers-pac-spend-250k-in.html?m=1
A determined man..,, I used to know him well
His dad was an early HCA CFO who made out very well
A half a billionaire they say