Is Nashville's Soul, Blackness & Diversity often overlooked vs. say Memphis or Atlanta in spite of the History

[jerryfrmthe1]

Originally Posted by jkc2j

It would make sense that Nashville isn’t on the radar for Black folk on the east coast, given it’s closer to the Midwest. Heck, I could drive to Chicago about the same time it would take me to get to Charlotte. This plays out historically as well, during the great migrations A lot of Black people from Middle and West Tennessee tended to migrate to points directly north due to proximity to cities like Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland etc where as in the Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia migration geared towards the Northeast. Now that there’s a reverse migration of sorts, a lot of Black people are just moving back down south where they have family ties or roots i.e. Blacks in the Midwest to southern states like Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama and Northeastern Blacks to Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia etc.

That makes sense because i’ve met quite a few Nashville residents who moved from places like Columbus Chicago and Detroit

[oobanks]

Originally Posted by jerryfrmthe1

That makes sense because i’ve met quite a few Nashville residents who moved from places like Columbus Chicago and Detroit

This is true, I have met a lot of people that just moved here from Chicago sense I been here. Funny though, most every one I have met, no matter what race have been transplants from many parts of the US and some overseas.. Just about every local I have met were mainly all black.