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Originally Posted by Docere
The term is redundant there as there are no meaningful ethnic distinctions among whites in Nashville. The vast majority are white Southerners of British ancestry and Protestant religion.
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I think there are no meaningful ethnic distinctions in Nashville because is an Evangelical City. It is probably the most powerful seat of Evangelicism in the country...and perhaps the only major center of commerce in this country that has Southern Baptists front and center in its ruling class.
It might not look meaningful to somebody in Nashville as there is a homogeny among white elites. And it might not look different to an outsider riding around Franklin or Belle Meade because it just looks rich and white, but culturally, those places and the affluent suburbs of the northeastern cities are extremely different. The ruling class in Nashville doesn't value the same things as the ruling class in most Northeastern cities and for that reason alone I don't think of them as being the same. Nashville is in a league of its own.
But sure yeah, it looks WASPY.