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.
I have a weekend home in Kentucky and the county it is located in, just two years ago elected the first Republican Judge Executive EVER in the history of the county. It is a slow process to convert residents to think Republican. It has a history of the good old boys network which takes time to break up. We keep tapping away at it and are making progress.