Kentucky has a special place because nowhere have I seen such total imbecile based behavior and issues with that behavior being commonplace. Large cities might be the only place that I've seen such crap produced in the ghetto areas amongst people who are typically lazy or refuse to better themselves.
In Kentucky, its a mind blowing experience to see the type of stupidity that exists among these people once the family friendliness or the so called Southern hospitality when the gloves come off. See there is this common perception that Kentucky is somehow part of the South with the entire Southern hospitality mentality that you might feel when you go somewhere in the Southern states. Places where a common person from a middle class or working class background such as myself would feel at home and not some sort of high class mentality. Kentucky isn't anything of the sort in most of my experiences and like many people I've been at the bottom economically and worked my way up and fell again and that happens to all kinds of people, rich, poor, middle class, etc. It's just the way that it is sometimes. What Kentucky does is to weld together not only massive poverty issues but also the worst of the white trash cultural issues that seem to consistently be a problem for their state. Add in the economics, educational system, and cultural aspects of the less than savory part of the Kentucky population and then you have a toxic stew of problems.
The thing is that Kentucky unlike their cultural brothers and sisters in the South at least in name should be a reasonably prosperous state with a reasonably educated population even without any sort of degree. The problem is that in Kentucky, high school isn't good enough to produce people that can be productive and intelligent and in Kentucky the schools are traditionally so bad and so underfunded that it would take massive amounts of federal and state aid in order to even make a dent in the lack of basic rudimentary education among Kentucky residents. We're not even talking about college level studies in business, economics, finance, engineering, medicine, entrepreneurship, etc.
We're talking about getting people out of high school that can use a dictionary and can read and write proficiently enough to fill out a job application of which where I am from most people can do easily. Kentucky has a population with 4.4 million people and with cities like Louisville (760,000 pop), Lexington (270,000 pop) and Boone and Kenton counties (293,000 population near Cincinnati, Ohio. However, out of 4.4 million people in Kentucky the state itself estimates that probably about 450,000 Kentuckians of working age 18 to 65 are incapable of filling out a job application and tend to be functionally illiterate. I've seen it personally where college graduates from Kentucky have resumes and writing full of errors in spelling despite spell check being prevalent.
The same goes for having applied for job positions with perfect and professionally written resumes and having hiring managers and bosses who tell me that it was misspelled in the resume. That's the type of hideous ignorance that exists in Kentucky in massive amounts that I've personally experienced. One would think that these people would actually learn to read and write with some level of proficiency. My earlier posts mention these countless attempts by Kentucky residents at some attempt to get even with me all the while not being able to write at least to the point that what they are trying to get at is reasonably intelligible.
I totally sympathize with the intelligent people that live in Kentucky and either can't get out because their finances or job situation won't let them. Even the people there who have family and know what a stinking cesspool it truly is. I wrote this portion of my commentary a while back and got the usual pissed off comments from a couple of small minded types who either weren't smart enough to know what I was talking about or too stupid to have been anywhere else and have a clue about the outside world. The next paragraph is where my comment while back comes in.
"Some of the posters on here hit it directly on the head when it comes to Kentucky. What an ass backward state that regularly finishes in the bottom 5 or 10 in every category out of all 50 states. In fact, Kentucky recently ranked 1st in child abuse cases, 1st in elderly abuse cases, 1st in animal abuse cases, 47th in income, 47th in percentage of population with some college or even graduates, etc. Consistently its one of the worst states in the whole Union in health outcomes, cancer deaths, obesity, and many other categories. I could probably write a whole white paper on those issues.
I'll give you a few personal anecdotes regarding my 5 year stint of living in Kentucky as a full time resident. Now I've lived in Northern Indiana, Central Indiana, Southern Indiana, Central Ohio, SW Ohio, and the Northern Kentucky and Louisville regions. Yet have been to most of the counties in Kentucky as part of my job for the two years I was there. Most of the state outside of Florence/NKY and East Louisville is a joke. Its like a big farm with mentally unstable rejects along with a huge meth presence. What I term as a skidmark on the underpants of society.
Every state has its mental rejects, trash, and totally useless eaters. Kentucky has generations of them in that these same morons have been living there for generations. Even my wife (A Native Kentucky Born Individual) and her sister realize what a bunch of trash that goes on there. Their parents were born elsewhere but live in the Louisville area. Both of them were born in Northern KY. Like my sister in law said........she would love to leave KY but her child support arrangements and visitation keeps her there. Sad but true in that it limits her in that area of betteing her life.
Its interesting to hear her and the in laws talk about how bad the schools are in Kentucky and the Louisville region. If it wasn't for the Louisville East area and some areas of Northern KY the state would be as low as Mississippi in educational rankings.
What I find amazing is that one would think that Kentucky would focus on education and literacy instead of producing generations of morons and inbreeds that incapable of doing anything but collect government benefits over generations. Kentucky has long been one of the states that have a high level of welfare dependency even going back to when the economy was booming in the late 1990s. This obviously has gotten to be an ever increasing problem now in 2018.
Interestingly, there seems to be a racket that goes on in Kentucky that the state readily provides crazy check benefits and it was mentioned in a book regarding people in Kentucky receiving such benefits. Prior to the establishment of the Social Security Disability that Kentucky was giving out checks openly to incompetents for generations.
Anyway......my personal experience was that many people from Kentucky have problems with basic civility and basic common sense. Those stereotypes that many hold against native Kentuckians are very true. I don't consider them stereotypes because I've seen enough crazy and nonsense behavior over the years. When I commented on this to my wife.........she said its because people are crazy in Kentucky. I think she happens to be right in many cases. Mental illness always seems to be very high in Kentucky as well. When I worked in Louisville years ago........there about half of the women where I worked that were on all kinds of nut pills, anti depressants, etc.
I know I'm going to get ripped for my comments but Kentucky is a backwards hole. My wife was so glad to leave Kentucky a few years ago. When I mentioned that we should move back......she said not only NO but HELL NO. The only time she goes back is to visit her sister and mom and dad. My comment to her that our state was going to become like Kentucky and her reply was "I hope that doesn't happen"
Kentucky has been a colony for corruption and bad governance for decades if not since the Civil War. From what I have read, after the Civil War, Kentucky state government was overtaken by a bunch of backwards neo-confederates and their sympathizers so nothing really changed despite the war being won by the north. Kind of sounds like most other Southern states that are still backwards in the bottom 10 of about every category. Look it up........the facts and figures are out there how Southern states rank in education, incomes, jobs, health, etc. Bottom feeders almost all of them.
Why the few good people in Kentucky put up with it is beyond me...........maybe they like the poverty and stupidity that exists in mass in their state. Its not just urban areas with the ghetto dwellers like one finds in the North.........but its also in the rural areas in Kentucky.
Kentuckians also seem to thrive on delusion as well as illusions about how grand their state really is. Its almost laughable if it wasn't so sad that people in Kentucky actually believe that despite all the evidence to the contrary. The statistics speak for themselves and maybe those who hate what I say need to actually do some analysis of their own beliefs and lack of knowledge. Somehow, its Kentucky where illusions and delusions rule out over truth and facts.
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