KY is yellow-dog Democrat country for most of the rural folks that have slowly turned red over the left-wing bent of the national party.
However, Louisville, Lexington & Frankfort are totally blue and pretty much dictates how the House is going to rule for the rest of the state.
The Senate... not so much.
However, most folks here in the rural areas do not like change. In many places - no one but Democrats ever run on a ticket because that is just how it is if you want to win a public office. Generations of tradition do not fade away lightly and most of the older folks still buy the lie that the Democrats are for the little guy.
Often you will hear “My grandpappy voted Democrat, my daddy voted Democrat and so I vote Democrat”. The perversion of the social issues is the only thing that has helped swing rural areas to the Conservative side. There are still churches on nearly every hill and valley - and that is where the battle actually lies to take our country back.
The Dems are too overrepresented in Frankfort as it is. KY & WV will be the last states to finally properly realign with the rest of the region. All the other Southern states did (even AL, AR, LA & MS, which had virtually no Republican party 35 or so years ago at the state/legislative level, and now all are majority GOP), and these two are just the stragglers. Few counties in KY voted for Zero and the national Democrats and not a single county in WV did.
Thanks for the insight.