# Tennessee

Tennessee is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th largest and the 16th most populous of the 50 United States. Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, Arkansas to the west, and Missouri to the northwest. It achieved statehood in 1796. It was a slave state, and joined the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, although the east of the state supported the Union. The Appalachian Mountains dominate the eastern part of the state, and the Mississippi River forms the state's western border. Memphis is its largest city, and Nashville is its capital. Its state government is controlled by the Republican Party, and Bill Lee is its governor.

## Quotes

* Young Buck, it's a Tennessee thing!
** Paul Beauregard, "Stay High" (2005), Most Known Unknown, Columbia Records
* Westward lay the march of American Empire. Within thirty years of the establishment of the Union nine new states had been formed in the Mississippi valley, and two in the borders of New England. As early as 1769 men like Daniel Boone had pushed their way into the Kentucky country, skirmishing with the Indians. But the main movement over the mountains began during the War of Independence. The migration of the eighteenth century took two directions: the advance westward towards the Ohio, with its settlement of Kentucky and Tennessee, and the occupation of the north-west forest regions, the fur-traders’ domain, beyond Lake Erie.
** Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume IV: The Great Democracies (1958), pp. 102-103
* The colonisation of New England and the eastern coastline of America had been mainly the work of powerful companies, aided by the English Crown or by feudal proprietors with chartered rights. But here in the new lands of the West any man with an axe and a rifle could carve for himself a rude frontier home. By 1790 there were thirty-five thousand settlers in the Tennessee country, and double that number in Kentucky. By 1800 there were a million Americans west of the mountain ranges of the Alleghenies. From these new lands a strong, self-reliant Western breed took its place in American life. Modem American democracy was bom and cradled in the valley of the Mississippi. The foresight of the first independent Congress of the United States had proclaimed for all time the principle that when new territories gained a certain population they should be admitted to statehood upon an equality with the existing partners of the Union. It is a proof of the quality and power of the Westerners that eleven of the eighteen Presidents of the United States between 1828 and 1901 were either bom or passed the greater part of their lives in the valley of the Mississippi.
** Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume IV: The Great Democracies (1958), p. 103
* I met Dolly Parton in Tennessee; her titties were filled with Hennessy. That country music really drove me crazy, but I rode that ass and said, "Yes, Miss Daisy!"
** Joseph Foreman, "Crazy Rap" (2000), Sell Your Dope, Colorado: T-Bones Records
* Young Buck, we don't give a fuck. We must represent this Tennessee; we drink a whole lot of Hennessy.
** Marlon Goodwin, "Stay High" (2005), Most Known Unknown, Columbia Records
* Alabama's gotten me so upset/Tennessee made me lose my rest/And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam
** Nina Simone "Mississippi Goddam" (1964)
* It was like dying and going to hell, except a little hotter and a little sticky gear. July in Tennessee was not the ideal weather in which to fight in a barrel.
** Harry Turtledove, The Great War: Breakthroughs (2000), Chapter 16, (ISBN 0-345-40563-3, p. 363)
* This is devastating news and our hearts are broken for the families of those who lost loved ones. The city stands ready to help them in their time of grief.
** Joe Pitts, Nashville’s mayor according to Tennessee: At least six dead as tornadoes rip through state (9th December 2023) + video

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Tennessee on Wikipedia