Most American City - Nashville

That shouldn't surprise anyone, especially those of us lucky enough to live there!

teechur and DonDiego have enjoyed visiting Nashville. The downtown is filled with eating and drinking establishments. (After their most recent visit, they both came down with acute enterocolitis, . . . pr'bly from some food industry employee not adhering to industry hygiene practices.)
And there's lots of entertainment venues, . . . often of the Country/Western variety, . . . with talent from the tops in the business to kids trying to "make it" in a low-class bar. And, of course, the town has a National Football League Team.

But, . . . "most American"? Heckfire, . . . what's that even mean?j
Well, the study to which captain bill refers is actually a statistical exercise identifying where US Metropolitan Areas ranked with regard to 26 key demographic measures.
Ref: Metro Areras That Most and Least Resemble the U.S.

Nashville was designated "Most American" because its demographics most nearly matched the average for all American cities. In other words, . . . Nashville is the "Most Average" American City:
__The average U.S. city is 50.8 percent female, 49.2 percent male. (Nashville is 51.5 percent female.)
__The average U.S. city is 74 percent white, 16.6 percent Hispanic, 12.6 percent black and 4.9 percent Asian. (Nashville is 60.5 percent white, 10 percent Hispanic, 28.4 percent black and 3.1 percent Asian).
__The average household size is 2.63. (Nashville is 2.36)
__The average foreign-born population is 13 percent. (Nashville's rate is 12 percent.)
__The median home price is $174,600, and the average home square footage is 1,773 square feet. (According to the U.S. Census, Nashville's median home value is $165,000.)
__In the average U.S. city, 11.6 percent of people live below the poverty line. (In Nashville, it's 19 percent.)
__In the average U.S. city, 28.7 percent of people 25 and over have a Bachelor's degree or higher. (Nashville's population with a Bachelor's degree or higher is 34.3 percent.

Nashville ranked just ahead of Cincinnati and Indianapolis. Charleston, S.C., and Jacksonville, Fla., rounded out the top 5.
Yuma, Ariz., Brownsville, Texas, Altoona, Pa., Boulder, Co., and McAllen, Texas, were ranked as the cities least resembling the USA overall, according to the study.

Don, thanks for your input, but I much prefer "Most American" over "Most Average".

I greatly admire DonDiego' s ability (and willingness) to take the time and actually do the background work to more closely look at people's self-congratulatory statements like this one, and to study the methodology behind such "reports". I have never been to Nashville aside from passing through so can't honestly comment on the city itself other than stating I would rather live there than someplace like Cincinnati or Indianapolis. Nashville strikes me as having a warmer vibe to it....and I'm not just talking about the weather

Still, judging by this study alone, most average seems to be a closer approximation than most American

I believe there’s one statistic DonDiego may have overlooked.

There’s thirteen hundred and fifty-two guitar pickers in Nashville
And they can pick more notes than the number of ants on a Tennessee ant hill
Yeah, there’s thirteen hundred and fifty-two guitar cases in Nashville
And anyone that unpacks his guitar can play twice as better than I will

Of course, that was as of 1966. The number’s probably gone up since then.

Lots of happy Teens in Nashville (well for a couple hours anyway)....

Thirty-two teens – ages 14 to 19 – escaped from Woodland Hills Youth Development Center around 11 p.m. Monday by crawling under a weak spot in a fence that surrounded a yard there

All had multiple felonies...still 7 missing. DCS sucks in Tennessee.