Evolution of Nashville Local Government

Evolution of Nashville Local Government

Evolution of Nashville Local Government

Since its incorporation as a city in 1806, Nashville, Tennessee has served as a touchstone for military activity, political breakthroughs, and social justice. Although Tennessee is often given the connotation of a “red state”— or one in which the population of the state is a conservative, Republican political majority— Nashville, and specifically Davidson County, has steadily become a Democratic political haven. Bearing this in mind, as well as the relationship between liberalism and the Democratic party, has controversy surrounding social issues been the primary cause for changes in Nashville elections and governance? Or has the political process itself been an agent change for these social issues?

Reena Patel

Nashville American, City Directories, Annual Reports

Mary Ellen Pethel

2016

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English

Analysis, Local Government, Politics

Metro Nashville, 1806-Present