Reply #11: My Mom lives there and voted for Corker. [View All]

[CottonBear]

She was appalled that I said I had been supporting Ford in the race. (I live in GA but grew up in Chattanooga so I try to keep with the politics.) I'm sure she would never vote for a black candidate.
Usually, I avoid discussing politics with my Mom.

Chattanooga is quite conservative. There are huge numbers of extremely wealthy (old money and new) people along with major businesses and industries. I went to a private school with the Olan Mills (Photo Studio) girls, the Krystal Restaurant heiresses and the North American Royalties Oil heiress among others. One local man was a Reagan administration official. SO yes, it is a city of many Republicans. The local, mostly black, urban population is gaining in representation in the city government. The suburbs are almost all white. I grew up in an exclusive, small town Chattanooga suburb that to this day has no black people living there that I know of. The only blacks that were there when I was a kid were the maids that came up on the bus to clean houses (including ours.)