Why are Tennessee's suburbs still vote Republican

[ProgressiveModerate]

With Memphis, a large part is definitely pretty extreme race polarization that hasn’t gotten much better. If you look at the one part of metro Memphis that has actually gotten pretty diverse; DeSoto County in MS, it has zoomed left. Another factor is most of Memphis’s influence is confined to Shelby and DeSoto Counties we don’t really see much sprawl into neighboring counties; at least as much as one would expect for a metro if it’s size

Metro Nashville counties definitely have shifted left, but many of these counties include exurbs/rurals that have stalled this a bit

[ProgressiveModerate]

Why wouldn't they? White-majority southern suburbia is still quite Republican outside of the innermost burbs, barring unusual circumstances.

I see, so the suburbs in Georgia and Texas are more diverse? Make sense.

They are so much more diverse. Fort Bend and Gwinnett Counties are both less then 1/3 white. Williamson County TN is 80% white

Make sense. Tennessee is 6% Hispanic. Georgia and North Carolina are 10%. Texas is 40%

Tennessee is 16% black. Georgia is 30%! North Carolina is 20%. Texas is 12%

Tennessee is 2% Asian. Georgia is 4%. NC is 3%. Texas is 5%

Georgia is almost half minority. If it wasn't for intense racial polorazation and low black turnout, Georgia should have been a swing state a long time ago

One thing that has helped Dems in GA recently is there is a growing group of middle and upper-class black voters that still give Dems insane margins but with good turnout.