ah! this gives me a reason to introduce Karl Marx’s hot takes on the Civil War and its most interesting “border”, aka Union Southern State.
Marx’s description of Kentucky’s class war at the ballot box in the 1860s, explains why MLK (in the 1960s) and later Fred Hamptom (in the 1970s), wanted to bring the CRM to the Appalachias thru Kentucky: rigged elections kept the oligarchy in power and the democratic masses out.
and explains their assassinations.