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> >Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and maybe, just guessing
> Bristol/Tri Cities?
> 

Yes, you have about the straight of it.  The Tri-Cities area is far more 
populous than Murfreesboro or Clarskville, but it is five different cities 
(Bristol, Kingsport, Johnson City, Bluff City, and Blountville) in two and 
half 
different counties (Sullivan, Washington, and spilling over into Hawkins Co.) 
 So 
when looking at indivudual cities, one gets a distorted view of the 
demographics.  There is a very strong regionalism here the reaches accross 
state lines 
into Virginia, NC, and Kentucky. The Tri-Cities area is inseperably connected 
to 
Bristol, Va, and Abingdon Va. and all the other municipalities in the area.  

There was a promotion thirty years ago billing the area as a unified 
"Mountain Empire" and that is pretty much the case.