"Tagline Guru" survey has 'Big Apple" number one nickname

[Mullins, Bill]

> >
> >Nashville's "Music City USA" didn't make the top fifty?
> This confirms
> >Barry's supposition that the survey isn't scientific . .
>
> evidently pre-empted by "The Protestant Vatican", which does
> seem a bit obscure.  Remember the famous "Protestant Vatican
> Miracle" the Titans pulled off against the Bills?  Well, maybe not.
>


Obviously, having so many nicknames weakened Nashville's chance by
splitting the vote (they left out "Athens of the South", so they
could have had even more).

I grew up there, but have never heard "Protestant Vatican".  But the
place
has changed a lot in the last 25 years.

These two are near self-evident:
Music City USA
Country Music Capital of the World

This one:
The Third Coast
is also new to me, but likely derives from Hollywood/LA being the
"left coast"; and Nashville's prominence in the show business/
entertainment industries, after LA and NYC.

And these:
The Protestant Vatican
Buckle of the Bible Belt
Are related to Nashville's numerous churches and other religion-related
industries and activities.  I believe that Nashville makes more money
from religious publishing (Thomas Nelson, Baptist Sunday School Board,
Gospel Advocate, the Upper Room, etc.) than it does from country music.
The Reverend Will B. Dunn in the comic strip Kudzu, I have heard, was
based in part on a former preacher out of Nashville.  A radio station,
or newspaper, or something, once ran a contest "You are So Nashville If
. . ." and the winning answer was "if, when you give directions, you say
"turn left at the Church of Christ" ".  There are several
church-affiliated colleges in Nashville (David Lipscomb, Trevecca
Nazarene, Belmont).