Supposedly, Kentucky is a part of the South but, it’s too damned far north to be the South as far as I’m concerned. And, the sheer quantity of Far Left Lunatics that apparently live there seems to back my contention that Kentucky is NOT a Southern State. You don’t see this crap taking place so often in the Real South. It seems to be all too common in Kentucky.
Kentucky, some Mountain Williams relations explained to me when I was but a callow youth, is a “border state”. I’m unclear if there are others.
What they meant was, there are counties full of decent folks, but there are other counties that might as well be full of Yankees, bless their black hearts. And in the case of my own family, there were (now distant) cousins who fought and died in defense of their homes and families, and others who fought for the Northern aggressors
I think the descendants of the latter all moved to Louisville. The country is still fine.
It’s a “neutral zone”.