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Kentucky

TreasonousBastard

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3. First I heard about this thing. I tend to agree that rather than destroy it, turn it...

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Jul 29, 2021, 06:26 AM

Jul 2021

into something educational.

Kentucky had a strange history with the Confederacy, being closer in economics and politics to the North than to the South. In fact, the common vote was to stay with the Union, although a shadow rebel government was set up by the Confederacy, which refused to admit Kentucky gave it the finger.

This would be a perfect place to explain the complexities of just what was going on back then.

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