By the way, the rural counties in Middle Tenn used to be solidly Dem, while solidly white. Now the rural counties there are about even (and still lightly populated and not demographically significant), with the suburban and exurban formerly lightly populated Dem counties surrounding Davidson, now much more populated, and swamping Davidson, heavily GOP, and making the Nashville metro area now about 57-58% Bush. It is those counties, Williamson, Rutherford, etc, about eight of them, that is the coup de grace to the Dem party in Tenn all things being equal.
That post was a total mess and made no sense whatsoever. Davidson county is Dem...big time. Always will be. It's the seat of the city, county and state government. It went for Kerry.
THAT is Metro. And we Williamson county folks WILL NOT be slandered by being called a part of Metro. And ALL of these counties "were" solidly Dem...every single county in the entire South was pre-1980 on.
Again, you are defining Metro in your own way and I refuse to acknowledge that definition. Moot point.