SE Kentucky is VERY insular. If you aren’t from there, not only are you an outsider, you’re also not kin. Such a status could make for a very “interesting” existence. SE Kentucky is probably the LAST place I would ever consider living. Pretty much the entire population lives off of government handouts to some degree (welfare, and LOTS of folks there are on some kind of disability) and lawsuits. It is a very depressing place if you’re not originally from there (and if you’re not originally from there you’ll never be truly welcome there). Really, it is a feudal place.
Drove NW once out of NW South Carolina through the southern Smokies into eastern Tennessee and David Crockett’s birthplace in Limestone.
Wow, that is some beautiful country.