I visited Nashville twice back in the mid 90s and had even wanted to settle down there to work and live in. I took a look on Google Streetview of Music Row and other well known areas I remember and can barely recognize them. Someone else here on another thread remarked about how the Hickory Hollow Mall has become really run down and crummy these days.
Hickory Hollow Mall, half was taken over by Nashville State University. The rest is a smattering of mexican, and other country kiosks. Preds still work out in the ice rink, but not a real good place you want to be in.
The marginal populations which are mostly immigrant or black have been pushed out to Antioch and Madison
Or Bordeaux which has always been black
Everything else is gentrifying at crazed pace
Hickory hollow had two strikes...it's a mall...a dying institution usually.....and it's now overrun with Latino and others looking to come up
It is not indicative Nashville is in decline by any means
I've never seen anything like what's happening here....tower cranes everywhere
The downtown building clusters have quintupled in ten years
But Nashville which has always been fairly conservative Dixiecrat democrat is now very liberal....leftist ...like Austin Texas
It's also very young population wise....and young people are more leftist no question of that
The 9-11 counties making up the metro area surrounding Nashville and Davidson county are the opposite...mostly conservative ...
And California is pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain...streaming in....our largest newcomer origin now