"Close" my arse Torie.
I linked you folks with their own stats. take it up with them...lol
Here read the report:
http://www.magnoliareport.com/Report60.htm
The biggest thing about nashville yankees is that they are white and may offset the burgeoning Hispanic and other minority surges here. The blacks are being diminished and some think they are now #3 after Hispanics (mex, salvador, guat)in the 7 county metro area.
We have the largest Kurdish pop outside "Kurdistan" and they vote (R) as might be imagined.
But, and I know cause I fought them throughout the election....the noisiest Dems down here and big organizers were Yankees....mostly Northeasterners or Kali entertainment types.
I doubt anyone has stats on how metro Nashville folks from North or South voted. We have lots of non Yankee transplants too.
Nashville is now more liberal than ever. The suburbs though being overrun by nimbys and greenies are not...yet.
Bush won the Nashville metro area decisively. That metro area is really why the state has swung GOP. That is where the movement has been, only margially offset by the Memphis area going more Dem because it is now about 50% black, in part because a fair number of whites in that metro area now live in Desoto County, Miss.