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Originally Posted by jkc2j
It's like, "how dare Nashville grow into a bigger city" lol.
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It didn't pay its dues. The "success" appeared too easily, like a downloaded app.
Nashville didn't have pro sports so there was no humiliation from the loss of a pro team, like how Cleveland lost The Browns. Nashville didn't have big department stores downtown so there was no humiliation when they closed. Nashville hasn't lost historic landmarks because...it never had any. It never had the giant plant closings because...it never had any. It's never lost the HQ of a major bank or company because...it never had any.
For decades, innumerable grassroots efforts worked in dozens of U.S. cities to stop freeways, preserve historic buildings, get public transportation projects built, and to attract people back to neighborhoods with gallery walks and other arts activities. These grassroots efforts took on their respective area's blue bloods and when the establishment took action they mercilessly punished those ordinary citizens who dared challenge them. I personally know people who attacked in the courts and run out of town for the crime of caring about their home cities.
Nashville was spared all of that, like the youngest child who doesn't remember the war its older siblings witnessed.