For all of its manufacturing might, sweet ambitions also shape Chattanooga's growth from MoonPies, Little Debbie snacks, Krystal hamburgers and M&Ms.
The TVA is one of the biggest socialist experiments in American history and, in general, it has helped deliver cheaper power, faster Internet and more economic development than private power utilities that exist in so-called socialist places like New York. Does TVA prove socialism sometimes works?
An enduring lesson? Chattanooga was developed after the Civil War by many former Union soldiers from the North who were welcomed here contrary to other Southern towns that denounced "Yankee scalawags."