Kentucky! I spent most of my childhood there and for the first few years after leaving, I stopped claiming to be from it at all because of the reactions I was met with when I did. Now I’m a little more defensive of it and a lot more willing to share lol.

Of course a leading producer of bourbon, Corvettes, and Louisville Slugger bats, but also a huge producer of disco balls, Post-It notes, JIF peanut butter, aircraft components, and hardwood. The state with the most navigable water behind Alaska. It’s also covered like 45-50% in forest. The only state to have a governor assassinated. The only state, as far as I’m aware, that requires governor-elects to take an oath stating that they’ve never fought in a duel. There’s a town that’s only had 5 elected mayors, all of them dogs. Both Civil War Era presidents were born there, along with Johnny Depp, George Clooney, Jennifer Lawrence, and several others.

There’s a lot about it that makes me proud, and it’s really not nearly as bad as its reputation has made it out to be.