Yeah, i gotta work tomorrow too.
Its been fun playing Borderlands 2 and watching NFL all day, but unlike Hodj and Merlin I actually have to go and earn a living instead of mooching from the government
never forget:
1. 99% of Kentucky voted for pro-slavery candidates in 1860 presidential election, less than 1% voted for Abraham Lincoln
2. In 1860 election, Kentucky gave its electoral votes to the Constitutional Union party, a party that wanted to preserve the status quo of slavery
3. The nominee that Kentuckians voted for was John Bell, a well known slave holder and plantation owner who declared open support for Confederacy within months of losing the election and urged his own state (Tennessee) to join the Confederacy and fight against the federal government
4. Kentuckians refused to participate in the war and side with either side, until the choice was essentially made for them and then reluctantly picked the winning side.
5. Kentucky actively refused to ratify the 13th amendment, becoming 1 of only 4 states to refuse to ratify it in 1865 and only 1 of 2 states who wouldn't ratify it in the same century (19th), ratifying it in 1975, the second to last state in the Union to do so.
6. The 8 consecutive governors elected by Kentuckians in the wake of the Civil War, were all prominent Confederates
7. Kentucky had one of the most slavery friendly state Constitutions in the Union.
8. 9 out of 10 Kentuckians consider their state a Southern state
9. The US Census Bureau considers Kentucky to be a Southern state
10. Almost just as many Kentucky volunteers fought for the Confederacy as well as the Union
11. For 100 years after the Civil War, Kentucky enacted the most brutal and harshest Jim Crow laws of any state in the Union, that essentially criminalized being a person of color in the State of Kentucky.