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Kentucky the birthplace of both Lincoln and Davis was evenly divided between North and South. Kentuckians took pride in their traditional role as mediator between North and South.

Abraham Lincoln the railsplitter became the symbol of frontier, farm, opportunity, hard work, rags to riches, and other components of the American dream.

The North started later than the South to raise an army. The Union had more than 3.5x as many white men of military age as the Confederacy.

In Kentucky a mob drove 39 people associated with an antislavery church and school at Brea out of the state.

Seldom in history has a counterrevolution so quickly provoked the very revolution it sought to pre-empt.

"If you want to support a party that says a nigger is better than an Irishman, than vote Republican."