re: Why are so many people from Kentucky incredibly dull?

Kentucky is the place where I first witnessed someone in public call a bunch of black dudes the plural form of the N-word. We had just handed Cumberland College their asses on the football field and were exiting the field to the locker room when one of their neckbeard fans decided to broadcast this to my dirty south teammates. Our coach probably prevented a few beating deaths by football helmet when he ushered my aggrieved teammates inside.

Keep in mind that it was 1999, I was 21 at the time and raised in South MS and had never witnessed this before ever in my home state.

You stay classy hill country Kentucky.



Eta: Not lumping all Kaintucks with this example, btw, met many good folks from there over the years, I'm just looking at you Indians or Patriots or whatever you're calling yourselves these days at CC.

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I don't find my fellow Kentuckians dull. Most I know are hard working, love their families and just live each day.

Kentucky doesn't have a large city like other SEC states have. No Nashville, Atlanta, etc. Lexington is small with no real night life downtown, and Louisville is just a dirty city. The country side though is stunningly beautiful. I live in the middle of horse country and it's some of the prettiest land I've seen.

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Louisville is ten times more interesting than Lexington, and I'm not sure I would say it doesn't have a large city. Louisville metro is about the same size as New Orleans metro. It was as large or larger than Nashville for most of both cities' histories (until pretty recently), but Nashville has a state government that actually supports growth in its primate city instead of sucking $0.70 for every dollar that it pays in state taxes.

As for the OP, I wouldn't say people from Kentucky are dull on the whole. 60% of the state lives in the golden triangle region of Louisville/Lexington/Northern Kentucky (Cincinnati suburbs), and the vast majority of that area is just like any other middle or upper middle class part of America. Some of the horse farm areas and Louisville suburbs are super nice. It's just that not a lot of people leave the state and not a lot of people move to it, either; it doesn't have that dynamism.