Adam Griffin
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« on: January 21, 2019, 11:53:44 PM » |
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Substantial numbers of Swiss (and later German) migrants moved initially to Knoxville, TN before finding their way into the then-isolated Cumberland Plateau and beyond; in some of these places, they were the first to settle the areas. This is why you have cities like Gruetli-Laager and Hohenwald throughout eastern and central TN. These areas (counties like Van Buren, Grundy, Warren & Lewis, Perry and Hickman) also tended to be among the last-remaining white rural Democratic regions in the state.
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