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Kentucky, to use a timeless elementary school report opener, is a land of many contrasts.
It holds the peculiar distinction as being the birthplace of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln and the Confederacy's only president, Jefferson Davis, who were born less than one year and 100 miles apart. In Kentucky, Christian County is "wet," while the aptly named Bourbon County, where the name bourbon actually originated, is "dry." Weirder still is that more than 100 native Kentuckians have been elected governors of other states.
Even the state's own name is an oddity because no one knows what Kentucky means, yet alone its origins. Lore suggests that it means "dark ...
Source: HighBeam Research, More than just fried chicken.(extra credit)