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Also worth remembering that Tennessee initially voted AGAINST secession and only joined the Confederacy after a second vote where the plantation owners basically held the transitional Middle Tennessee at gunpoint to vote in favor for it. And that it was the only state that didn't have -any- period of military occupation after the war, it was immediately allowed to return to self-rule precisely because of those voting circumstances. And it's where they had the Manhattan Project. And where they invented cotton candy of all things. And it has the only US government project that's ever turned a profit every single year since its inception in the form of the TVA.

Tennessee's such a weird fucking state man.