The Triumph Of Nashville Music City charts a middle way that is palatable to broad swathes of normal Americans

John Sutter : Nashville is a place where Americans of all stripes can shop, work, and party without left-wing busybodies or controversial traditions getting in the way.

Music City’s popularity illustrates a nation moving beyond extremism of woke, but not embracing “counter-revolution” in Nashville .

Nashville is one of the top tourist cities in America , famous (or infamous) for its bachelorette parties.

The Daily Wire moved its headquarters to Nashville in 2020 .

Conservative podcasters are also based in Nashville .

The city is a blue dot in a sea of red, but its surrounding counties are very conservative.

A distinctive characteristic of the New South is burying the Confederate past and elevating a different identity.

Conservative intellectuals such as Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk wanted to learn from its chief cultural export.

Unlike folk music of other peoples, it doesn’t evoke a mythical past, ancestral traditions, or collective memory.

Most songs are just about cold beers on a Friday night , heartbreak over a girlfriend, and other everyday occurrences.