re: #1 aagcobb

Some of these southern and western states have pockets of progressive culture - Nashville is very hip and so is Austin. Some southern states have shifted cultures like Virginia.

I don’t know much about Kentucky but it may be more progressive than we think deep down. So far the south has been under the thumb of post Nixon Strategy Republicans where guns, god and gays and dog whistle racism were wedge issues but those may not be motivating factors these days as they used to.