re: Is Kentucky southern?

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3. Kentucky had economic ties to Northern cities so it coulnd't afford a war

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Source?

I am most positive that the GLOBAL hemp trade was based in Central Kentucky (Age of Sail) and the main reason Lexington KY is the largest city in the US (and possibly the world) not on a major waterway. Hemp is a resource and the oldest mens club west of the mountains is in Lexington KY and full of English and French names. They much preferred trade with Europe as the finished goods there were superior to goods from thew North in the USA.

After the War of Northern Agression the citizens of Kentucky were subjuect to the "dispossession" laws that brought financial ruin to the South. As stated above, most of the timber and coal (land) went to a handful of families in NY and PA as the citizens of the state were dispossessed. So argue Abe was killed to make sure this happened as being from the state he was sympathetic to not dispossessing those in the state with net assets over 10K (land + $$$$ + chattel + animals + slaves + personal goods) - view it as a modern day "net worth" statenment.

To be fair, KY was asset rich in the materials of war so BOTH sides wanted access to these goods.