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Tennessee is almost 500 miles across, closer in the east to Dover, Delaware than to Memphis and closer in the west to Dallas, Texas than to Johnson City. Politically, the state has been turning increasingly more Republican since 2000, with a current Partisan Voting Index of R+14. In 2008, Barack Obama carried Memphis’ Shelby County, which is about half African American, and Nashville’s Davidson County, but he won only four of the state’s other 93 counties. In 2016, Hillary Clinton also won Shelby and Davidson Counties and one other, Haywood County, in western Tennessee. Donald Trump won the other 92 counties and won 61 percent of the Presidential votes cast in 2016. Hillary Clinton underperformed Barack Obama’s 2012 total by 90,000 votes. The Governor is Republican, both U.S. Senators are Republican, and 7 of the 9 Congressional Representatives are Republican.

Tennessee has a population of 6.7 million people, of whom 74.5 percent are White, 17.1 percent are African American and 5.2 percent are Latino.