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After a Mayor's Mysterious Death, a Land Dispute Divides Republicans in Tennessee

MANCHESTER, Tenn.—Smack dab between the swelling urban centers of Nashville, Chattanooga, and Huntsville, Ala., rural Coffee County was poised to become Tennessee's next boomtown, with subdivisions rapidly replacing farmland. But when the county's pro-growth mayor, Judd Matheny, died under unusual circumstances last year, it unleashed a development battle with a Southern Gothic twist that has split this deeply red area over the fundamental question of what it means to be conservative.