Everything about Middle Tennessee totally explained
Middle Tennessee is a distinct portion of the state of
Tennessee, delineated according to law as the Middle
Grand Division of Tennessee as well as by custom. Middle Tennessee consists of that portion of the state east of the
Tennessee River's western crossing of the state (in which it flows northward back into Tennessee after having flowed through northern
Alabama) and west of the dividing line between the Eastern and Central
time zones. Exceptions to this rule are that
Hardin County, which is located on both sides of the Tennessee River, is considered to be entirely in
West Tennessee and that
Bledsoe,
Cumberland,
Marion and
Sequatchie counties are generally considered to be in
East Tennessee despite being in the Central Time Zone. Also, the current legal definition places Sequatchie County in the middle grand division instead of the eastern division.
Middle Tennessee is known for its rolling hills and fertile stream valleys, as well as for its major city,
Nashville, which is the state capital. Other major sizeable cities in Middle Tennessee include
Clarksville and
Murfreesboro. Politically, it has provided the
Democratic Party with some of its leading statesmen, and still is largely inclined toward it, although an increasing
Republican trend has been seen in the Nashville suburbs. Geographically it's composed predominantly of the
Nashville Basin and the
Highland Rim, although the western portion of the
Cumberland Plateau also extends into Middle Tennessee.
Middle Tennessee also has an abundance of institutions of higher learning--most notably
Vanderbilt,
Belmont,
Lipscomb and
Tennessee State universities in Nashville and
Tennessee Tech University in
Cookeville. Other prominent universities are
Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, the
University of the South in
Sewanee,
Cumberland University in
Lebanon, and
Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, which is the state's second largest institution of higher learning, just behind the
University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Unlike the geographic designations of regions of most
U.S. states, the term Middle Tennessee has legal as well as socioeconomic meaning. Middle Tennessee,
West Tennessee and
East Tennessee comprise the state's three
Grand Divisions. According to the
Tennessee State Constitution, no more than two of the
state supreme court's five justices can come from any one Grand Division. A similar rule applies to certain other commissions and boards as well, to prevent them from showing a geographic bias.
Middle Tennessee is the largest in area and least densely populated of the three Grand Divisions. At the 2000 census it had 2,069,976 inhabitants living in its 40 counties, which have a combined land area of 44,054.17 km² (17,009.41 sq mi). Its population was 36.38 percent of the state's total, and its land area is 41.27 percent of the state's land area. Its
population density was 46.987/km² (121.696/sq mi) at the census.
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