The populist tradition that resonates with them is the government-bashing populism of Andrew Jackson (another Tennessean) rather than the Wall Street-bashing of Al Gore's father.Bill Clinton only managed to hold Tennessee by a margin of two points in 1996, despite 16 appearances by Mr Gore.
Like that other patrician Tennessean, Mr Frist feels a constant need to prove himself.
THE CHILDREN.By David Halberstam.Random House; 789 pages; $29.95DAVID HALBERSTAM, a 25-year-old Harvard graduate, had just gone to work for the Nashville Tennessean after an unhappy experience working as a reporter in Mississippi.
A Tennessean by birth, he mistrusted north-eastern elites and spent most of his career at universities in Virginia.
The less people admire the president, the less likely they are to vote for his party in the mid-terms.Consider David Peel, another white Tennessean whom Lexington met outside a hardware store in Millington.
A year later he joined the Tennessean in Nashville, again covering civil rights, in the thick of things and ahead of the game.
Des Moines Register, December 10thSouthern hospitality "He's masquerading as a good ole boy .Jim Hanks, chairman of the South Carolina League of the South, objects to Tennessean Fred Thompson's lack of support for reintroducing the Confederate flag.
Mr Chase posted a biographical article on John Seigenthaler, a distinguished journalist (and former editor of the Tennessean) who in 1961 did a stint as assistant to Robert Kennedy, America's attorney-general at the time.
Jackson's champion in the U.S. House of Representatives, Tennessean James K. Polk, was elected president in 1844, although the majority of Tennesseans, sympathetic to the Whig Party, voted against him.
Seigenthaler briefly attended Peabody College (later part of Vanderbilt University, Nashville), and after completing his military service he was hired (1949) as a reporter at The Tennessean.
Factionalism within the ascendant Democratic Party and popular crusades such as prohibition (a movement to restrict the production and consumption of alcoholic beverages) and women's rights captured public attention and worked to polarize Tennessean society in the early 20th century.
