Well there goes Nashville down the same route as other liberal cities run by Democrats have gone. It’s historic alright. Historically bad for the city and it’s inhabitants.
Nashville / Davidson County has been a democratic stronghold for years. The local elections are theoretically non-partisan, but we’ve never had a Republican mayor in my lifetime. The white flight to the surrounding counties during the forced busing of the 70s is the root of Nashville’s left leanings. The city is made up of inner city / low income, young transplants from the east and west coasts and the rust belt who are revitalizing downtown and midtown housing, old money many with Vanderbilt university ties, and the suburban communities ringing the city but still inside the county that make up Metropolitan Nashville. All of those but the outer communities are heavily liberal, Even the suburban communities have turned more democratic in recent years as the neighborhoods built in the 50s, 60s and 70s age, the original owners die or move to assisted living and immigrants and young families buying flipped houses move in.
The race was between David Fox, a Jewish moderate democratic who ran on being a fiscal conservative and Megan Barry who promises to spend our way to prosperity. They are both social liberals. She ran a mud slinging campaign associating Fox with the Tea Party and Republicans, and apparently it worked.
White moonbat hipsters and Blacks put her in (ironically, 8 years ago, Blacks voted for the more Conservative candidate over our outgoing moonbat Mayor).
It’s the fourth yankee transplant mayor nashville has elected in a row
All two termers
All progressively more leftist
She will be worse no question
Nashville has gone from 80% non Hispanic white in 1970 to around 52% now
Romney got around 60-65% of that 52% of whites which is obviously not enough when the rest of the electorate votes 90-95% dem
Even if whites in Nashville voted like Mississippi or Alabama....90% for GOP
It would not be enough
Sure music city is eat up with white libs and hipster progressives but that’s not the real issue
It’s almost a minority majority city proper now....and demographics is destiny
Nashville will soon join the ranks of nearly all southern cities which are majority non white
The fact Nashville was less minority than any other always made it safer and more livable
Now we just flee to the suburbs to raise families and hipster dinks spend big bucks to live urban near the crime to be cool and sneer at us as the problem and representative of what’s wrong with traditional America till they have to deal with majority black public schools
Folks in Belle Meade and Green Hills where i confess I used to live cam insulate from most of it even public school till middle school
And so it goes ....
This woman is a curse
The emancipation of the female electorate killed America more than any other so called progress
Nashville is Austin almost precisely in nearly every way
Around 2 million metro
A blue turd in a red punch bowl
Hills
Capital
Music biz
River
Universities
Hipsters galore
Very. Liberal
My property taxes at one business I own went from 15,500 in 1997 to 45,000 in 2014
I sold it.
Only one left in davidson county now...I won’t build there again