Comparing Tennessee to North Carolina, which one has a more "southern" feel?

[Borntoolate85]

I'd lean towards TN as being the more southern of the two, since NC receives more transplants from the Northeast/mid-Atlantic than TN does, and Northeasterners are less inclined to "assimilate" into the southern ways of life than Midwesterners due with TN. NC also tends to receive more "halfbacks" from FL than TN does as well. IT reflects as well in the traditional political patterns, with TN being ruby red outside of Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, and Chattanooga, and with the possible exception of Memphis, NC's comparable cities (Raleigh, Charlotte, Greensboro, and Asheville) tend to be more progressive than their TN counterparts. NC has a lot of moderate to progressive leaning exurban/rural counties as well, and helps to make NC a purple state. TN even borders AL, MS, and AR, which are arguably the three most southern states culturally nowadays, and its top two colleges are in the SEC which is a nearly southern-exclusive conference, unlike NC and the ACC which has a number of non-southern universities in it, with a couple SF Bay Area schools being the latest to join.

[MTFan]

Both are equally southern. Which makes them both poplar states for people to move to.

[Heel82]

Incidentally NC, SC, and Georgia are in the high 60% range of current residents having been born in the South. Tennessee is slightly better in the low 70s.

https://www2.census.gov/programs-sur...Table_2021.xls


I’m not sure that makes Tennessee more Southern, or simply less accessible to the I-95 crowd.