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Article: Tennessee's Presidential Timber; In a State of Contradictions, It's No Surprise There Are Three Contenders
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- The Washington Post
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- January 22, 1997
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He had the nerve and he had the blood
And there never was a hoss like the Tennessee stud.
-- "Tennessee Stud," 1958
Before all else, there was Tennessee's landscape: cool lonely
mountains in the east, muggy open flatlands in the west, temperate
gentle hills in the middle. The geography in turn shaped the people
-- poor and Republican in the east, poor and Democrat in the west,
prosperous and moderate in between.
That's why there's a real chance that in 2000 both the
Democrats and the Republicans will nominate presidential candidates
from Tennessee.