re: When/if we do Balkanize... What does the map look like?

That map is fricking cancer.

As a Kentuckian, i’ll go ahead and laugh at the arbitrary line drawn down the middle of the state, and Eastern Kentucky being labeled as Western KY and vice-versa.

Kentucky is one of the places that has a huge amount of state pride, and even though the far Western part of the state has more in common with the deep south than Appalachia (culturally speaking), there is no way in hell they would either want to, or be able to separate themselves from the rest of the state.