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'''Tennessee''' is one of the most [[conservative]] states in the [[United States]], with [[evangelical Christian]]s comprising a significant proportion of the electorate. Tennesseans have traditionally volunteered for [[military]] duty or to support freedom at a very high rate, giving the state the nickname "the Volunteer State" (the name came about mainly due to Tennesseeans Tennesseans fighting for Texas independence at the Alamo). The capital of the state is Nashville.
Tennessee consistently votes Republican in presidential elections.
[[File:Protesters of Occupy Knoxville oct 2011.jpg|thumb|left|Protesters in Knoxville, Oct 2011.]]
Notwithstanding Tennessee's overall decision to secede during the Civil War, the eastern portion of the state (which is mountainous and not suited to plantation farming) remained loyal to the Union. In fact, except for two elections in the mid-1870's 1870s (and notwithstanding the political shifts between the Republican and Democrat parties as to viewpoints), it has voted for Republican congressmen in every election since prior to the Civil War.
In 1920, Tennessee was the state that provided the necessary number of states to ratify the [[Nineteenth Amendment]] to the [[U.S. Constitution]], a victory for the suffragists.