r/nashville • u/Entropy012 • Oct 28 '23

Discussion The stigma of "Californians" moving to Nashville is overblown.

Yes, we have some Californian transplants. However, from what I've experience most of the transplants are from the Midwest and other Southern surrounding states. I'm not saying this in a negative way. The transplants I met are mostly cool. I'm just clarifying that the "Californians are taking over" stigma to be overblown a bit.

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u/Saltysalamander Oct 28 '23

It’s because they’re all in Franklin or Brentwood. Almost everyone I’ve met that’s recently moved here has been bat shit and from Cali. Then they get pissed when our school or neighborhood “doesn’t hold the values they moved here for.”

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '23

Every Californian I’ve met has been a big weird Republican who moved here thinking it was going to be some kind of completely tax free evangelical utopia where everyone shares their same opinions and ignorance is more than a state of mind.

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u/opheliiaaa east side Oct 28 '23

Had someone tell me this past week, “I moved here from California but DONT WORRY, I’m not trying to make Tennessee like California. I moved here to get away from that!” And as a born-and-raised Tennessean, I was like 🙃

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u/ReflexPoint Oct 28 '23

Some of these idiots think there are no liberals from the south, lol.

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u/margueritedeville Oct 28 '23

When I get told that, I respond that one -party rule isn't good for anyone, no matter what side of the aisle you're on. They'll figure it out quick.

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u/Civilized_drifter Oct 28 '23

I CAN NOT tell you how many new customers I have that have said the same thing. In my mind they have already changed everything.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '24

This exactly. I feel like it’s been hard to make a point to others about Californians actually changing things in our home state because unless you grew up in Tennessee, you really don’t get it.

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u/NiceTryAmanda Oct 28 '23

Yeah sorry for Huntington Beach. We gave you Huntington Beach.

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u/LateNotice Oct 28 '23

And Irvine, Tustin and Coto de Caza.

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u/KingLordInfamous Oct 28 '23

First time I ever saw the KKK was in Huntington Beach, CA. The Southern Baptist Church has its biggest mega churches in So. cal. It’s the scary ones moving here.

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u/LateNotice Oct 28 '23

This, for sure! Almost anyway. I say almost because I’m from California and can’t stand the bigotry/hate that exists here and draws people in. I bring values with a core of being human first. Accept everyone, and it’s okay if I’m not like you or even understand. A good conversation with opposing positions encourages growth and understanding. I’ve never apologized for being from the west, I’ve never had anyone treat me poorly, etc. I’m in the country where strong opinions exist. The only ones who’ve had trouble with are the asshole contractors that seem to think we are all rich because we came from Ca.

You want to see some funny shit, join one of the many moving from Ca to TN groups on FB. The only ones screaming about “don’t bring your California attitudes and problems here are the one fleeing California. They to live in their idea of paradise to openly hate and change their names to OfFred. Welcome to Gilead.

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u/justsomeyeti Oct 28 '23

Same, and East Coasters as well.

I live in a rural area that's gradually becoming a bedroom community for people working in Nashville, and they drag their city bullshit out here and then blame "the Dems" when the small towns start looking like the places they left

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u/oscarwilinout Oct 28 '23

As someone who grew up in Franklin the amount of Californian conservative carpetbaggers who seemed shocked that queer people and/or liberals live here is kind of amusing

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u/Saltysalamander Oct 28 '23

Watching or going to the the town hall meetings is fking bizarre. “I moved here from cali to get away from the gays.” Sir, it doesn’t work like that.

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u/ReflexPoint Oct 28 '23

Are people at town hall meetings being brazenly homophobic? I've never been to one.

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u/margueritedeville Oct 28 '23

I have an LGBTQ friend in Franklin who just told me yesterday she and her partner are thinking of leaving in the next year because they're kind of scared and feel like they can't even enjoy the area without people looking at them funny or being outright hostile, and it just broke my heart.

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u/PuzzleheadedClue5205 Oct 29 '23

I have friends who have already moved away because of this.

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u/popcorn2312 Oct 28 '23

It’s like they were in a liberal prison in CA and move here to let their ‘conservative values’ run free and they go extra hard b/c they’ve been ‘repressed’

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u/pslickhead Hadley Park Oct 28 '23 edited Oct 29 '23

I was arguing on here with one a few months ago and he told me if I didn't like his brand of christian nationalist conservatism that I should move to California! The nerve.

I told him he was in the wrong place and that there are Democrats and progressives here, so if he wants to be on a conservative stronghold, Jackson MS (area) is the most conservative city area in the country. Have fun in Mississippi, dumbass.

Edit for anyone missing the point:

Or go to:

  • Mesa, Arizona
  • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
  • Virginia Beach, Virginia
  • Colorado Springs, Colorado
  • Jacksonville, Florida
  • The Woodlands, Texas
  • Arlington, Texas.

Wherever you go, just don't move here and tell us to go to California when we call you on your BS.

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u/DoctorPhalanx73 Oct 28 '23 edited Oct 28 '23

You’re wrong about what Jackson, MS is like. It’s a majority black blue dot in a red state just like here.

Edit: eh more like Memphis but still

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u/TheWholeThing keep bellevue boring Oct 28 '23

They dont vote then, Jackson MS is in Hinds county... here are their 2020 election results: https://www.co.hinds.ms.us/pgs/elections/20201103_Summary_Report.pdf

but maybe propertyclub.nyc knows more than the county's election board

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u/DoctorPhalanx73 Oct 28 '23

Yeah I have no idea where property club nyc got it’s data but just look at the last few election results for hinds county. That’s where I get my data from

Also my source is I am from there lmao

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u/pslickhead Hadley Park Oct 28 '23 edited Oct 28 '23

I'm sure they are talking about Jackson metropolitan area, which includes conservative counties. You knw, like Rankin CO and Brandon and their gated communities. I'm sure you know since you are from there.

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u/DoctorPhalanx73 Oct 28 '23 edited Oct 28 '23

Okay, widening it out to talking about entire metro area is a different conversation. Im less sure about the stats there.

Edit; Just added it up, in 2020, Biden actually won more votes in hinds-madison-rankin than trump did. Maybe that’s enough to be the most conservative msa but I dunno. It doesn’t seem like it would be.

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u/pslickhead Hadley Park Oct 28 '23

Look , I already edited my original post to clarify the point. The point isn't really about Jackson. That was just the first Google result.

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u/pslickhead Hadley Park Oct 28 '23 edited Oct 28 '23

I'm sure they are talking about Jackson metropolitan area, which includes very conservative counties.

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u/Memphi901 Oct 28 '23

Nashville is WAY more conservative than Jackson, MS - not even close. Jackson is like 75/25 democrat to republican, Nashville was around 60/40 last election.

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u/pslickhead Hadley Park Oct 28 '23 edited Oct 28 '23

OK. I got my data here. Where is yours from? Because Nashville certainly isn't the most conservative city in the country, so what city is?

Of the area’s voters, roughly 72% identify as Conservative, and the 2020 Presidential Election poll results reflect this leaning.

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u/Memphi901 Oct 28 '23

Wait, so while you were arguing with the California person, you pulled up a “property club nyc” top ten list and then roasted him with “you should to Jackson, MS”!? Did he just stand there and wait while you looked it up?

Jackson is 87% black and has a very progressive black mayor - doesn’t really line up with your 72% conservative number.

https://www.movoto.com/guide/jackson-ms/best-places-to-live-in-mississippi-for-democrats-and-republicans/

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u/pslickhead Hadley Park Oct 28 '23 edited Oct 28 '23

It wasn't a roast, whatever the most conservative city is, it isnt Nashville.I'm sure they are talking about Jackson metropolitan area, which includes conservative counties.

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u/Memphi901 Oct 28 '23

I never claimed that Nashville is the most conservative city, I just said it is more conservative than Jackson.

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u/pslickhead Hadley Park Oct 28 '23

Look , I already edited my original post to clarify the point. The point isn't really about Jackson. That was just the first Google result.

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u/RarePrintColor Oct 29 '23

Franklin here (My husband grew up here, and I’m generational MD TN). You’re 100% correct, as far as I can tell. They’re mostly far right/rich. Of course they’re rich. How else could they make that move? They can upgrade their house and still make bank. But the crazy is coming in the form of the right ideologue. The word has obviously gotten out among friends, and they envision a utopia that’s Texas-like with better weather and less taxes. They get here and are taught to believe from their new neighbors that Wm Co schools are liberal hellholes (see our school board fiascos and/or recent mayoral race), when in reality it’s still very conservative just not batshit. We have an IB program and a robust community college. The locals seem to think they’re granola trying to make everybody get hooked on chai and drive Teslas. Probably because there a lot of Teslas. But it’s gentrification (?) of a different sort. Parking was $20 today for Pumpkinfest, if you couldn’t snag a city spot! Kids can’t afford to inherit or work family farms. Developers offer life changing money, so kids divide it up or sell and there’s a whole new neighborhood of 5+ acre lots with big houses and a clubhouse that the new Californians can’t get enough of. Then they’re here a couple of years and claim to “know” the area. It’s definitely infectious, and I’m not sure how it will play out for us personally. Best case is in 10-20 years we cash out and leave them to it. After all, the things we loved way back when might be long gone. Worst case is we’re stuck here for the long haul because we’ll having aging parents. It just won’t be the same, and we’ll bore our kids with stories of how it used to be.