I don’t know anything about Kentucky except the fact they invented KFC.

Kentucky elects total scumbags. The kind of politicians that attack scientists, take bribes, cut taxes on the super-rich. Surveys show Kentucky love Trump. So I assume that Kentucky must be really bad place full of evil people.

I generally judge a place by the kind of politicians that they elect.

Wyoming is the most pro-Trump state in the US. I would never go there. I think the majority of them are very backward and violent people.

Maine elected Bernie Sanders. He is an honest man. So I really like Maine.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I’ve never been to Kentucky, or Maine. I wouldn’t mind visiting either, but I don’t think I would want to stay.

    Maine seems like the clear winner, but that’s mostly because I read Stephen King and New England sounds like a nice temperate place to live.

    My only real view of Kentucky was through Justified, a show about a federal agent who must return to his home town (or county?) of Harlan to fight drug lords… and stuff. Great show. Mostly because of Timothy Olyphant (the agent) and Walton Goggins (the main drug lord). And, not to spoil the ending, but they dug coal together (literally the last line of the series is “we dug coal together”). So it’s a coal mining area.

    As for KFC, I remember that being a big deal a long time ago. I don’t know if “they” invented KFC, but “they” prevented anyone from using Kentucky in their name, so what was once known as “Kentucky Fried Chicken” became known simply as “KFC”. It wasn’t just the initials, they were forced to take “Kentucky” out of their name. That changed recently, and you might have seen “Kentucky Fried Chicken” recently, but a lot of them are still just KFC. Also, did you know that KFC is a Japanese tradition… on Christmas? Japan is not a predominantly Christian nation, so Christmas is not the big deal there that it is in the west; however, enough Christian missionaries have visited Japan that Christianity does have a foothold there, and I do believe Christmas is a national holiday there. (Not sure on the details of that.) On Christmas, a lot of Japanese people like to go eat salty American chicken… I guess. Another fun fact, Japan also has Burger King and Pizza Hut, and they both do stuff that would never fly in the west.