Nashville, the state capital of Tennessee, has a small town feel with cosmopolitan diversity. Perhaps you have heard Nashville or Tennessee called "Music City USA", "Athens of the South", "Buckle of the Bible Belt", "City of Parks", "Nash-Vegas", "Protestant Vatican", "Hog & Hominy State" or the "Wall Street of the South". All of these names reflect a different side to Nashville's personality. It attracts music fans, history buffs, sports enthusiasts, businessmen, southerners, tourists, religious people and even the curious.

NewsChannel 5's SkyCam on top of the tallest building in Tennessee, the BellSouth tower, can give you a stunning view of Nashville. Take the pictorial tour.... it shows an interesting view of Nashville.

Nashville is my hometown.... an All American City! God's Country! Dixieland! And it's southern to the bone! I love it! I have lived here all my life, and never want to move.

Western cowboy attire and business suits, antebellum plantation homes and skyscrapers, dogwood and magnolia trees all blend into familiar sights around Nashville. Southern drawls are more the accepted way of speech, so if you have a yankee twang, expect to hear "You ain't from around here, are ya?" Folks are gracious and friendly. Children are taught to say "ma'am" and "sir". We believe in southern hospitality as a way of life.

Just so we do not have any misconceptions of what is sacred in the South, here's a few facts. Lot of families do call the siblings "bubba" and "sissy". Double first names are more common than hyphenated last names. Duct tape really does fix everythang. Kudzu grows faster than grass. Waffle houses are our equivalent of coffee houses. There's always room for one more at the dinner table.

Some people visualize Southerners dressed in raggedy overalls chomping on a moon pie, which actually was first concocted in Chattanooga, and swigging RC Cola, which we never call "pop". Most Nashvillians enjoy good downhome cooking and scrumptious soul food with either homemade biscuits or skillet cornbread. A true Southern homemaker owns at least one cast iron skillet and a rollin' pin. Fish is always served with hush puppies, and almost any food can be battered with beer. Country ham and red eye gravy is the start of a great breakfast. To some folks, squirrel, possum, pig's feet, or chicken gizzards are a delicacy. And yes, we do eat grits, chitlins, and turnip greens, usually not together tho.

Tennessee does happen to be the only state where it is legal to gather and consume "roadkill" (legislation introduced by Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Knoxville and Rep. Tommy Head, D-Clarksville). That sure makes for a diversified menu!

The weather is generally mild, although it can get up to the humid 90's in the summer. Folks grow their own garden patches to share tomatoes, cucumbers, okra and squash. Barefoot neighbors sit on their porch sippin' ice tea, and anybody with any sense would rather have dinner bbq'ed outdoors than cook in the kitchen. 'Sides a lot of men like to be chefs of the grill. 'Bout the only drawback is skeeters (mosquitoes to foreigners).

Nashville sees very little snow, maybe a few sprinklings of several inches annually. Some people swear that the weather forecasters are in the pay of the food stores, because there is an accepted notion that a snow prediction requires a trip to the grocery for milk and bread. Krogers always has a stampede of folks stocking up at the first snowflake. The young at heart are ecstatic to throw a few snowballs, but blizzards are unlikely. Dang good thing since most of us can not drive very well in the white fluffy stuff. And no, the majority did not learn on a John Deere tractor. 'Course if you do get stuck in the icy ditch, some good ol boys in a pickup truck with four wheel drive will happen along to pull you out with chains. That's southern hospitality.

Nashville is much more than meets the eye as our approximately six million annual visitors and tourists discover.

Tennessee is bordered by eight states, Kentucky and Virginia (N), North Carolina (E), Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi (S), and Arkansas and Missouri (W).

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