 
 <prompt> If you be racial minority for Tennessee early days, you go dey stay for areas wey dey segregated for black people. <response>: For early 21st century, Republican voters dey control most of the state, especially for rural and suburban areas outside the cities; Democratic power dey mostly for urban cores of the four major cities, and e dey particularly strong for Nashville and Memphis. The latter area get plenty African-American population. Historically, Republicans get their power pass for East Tennessee before the 1960s. Tennessee's 1st and 2nd congressional districts, wey dey based for Tri-Cities and Knoxville, respectively, dey among the few historically Republican districts for South. People wey dey for those districts support the Union pass the Confederacy during the Civil War; dem identify with the GOP after the war and dem don stay with that party since then. The 1st don dey for Republican hands continuously since 1881, and Republicans (or their ancestors) don hold am for all but four years since 1859. The 2nd don dey continuously held by Republicans or their ancestors since 1859. 