On being a secret Republican among the elite and polite in Tennessee (and elsewhere)

Via Instapundit, Metro Pulse in Nashville has this mostly amusing confession of a reporter who says he is a Republican, and what he perceives as the bigotry and hypocrisy he sees directly towards Republicans among the educated crowd with whom he associates.

I thought everybody in Tennessee was a Republican, but I never go much in Tennessee beyond Knoxville - who knows what goes on in places like Nashville, Chattanooga, and Memphis.