Not slander, just a little good-natured ribbin'! It is interesting to note, however, that most posters still view KY as a southern state anyway, regardless ot the secession technicality. In fact, here in Alabama we have a single County which never technically seceeded (Winston Co., I believe). They were some weird times to live in, to be sure.
It's SLANDER, I say, just slander against a good fellow SEC school. I mean how would you like to be basically called an Ohioian?? *shudder*.
Seriously though, I think that all the good natured ribbin from other southerners is fun. It sure feels like the rest of the south has never quite forgiven Kentucky for not seceding with them. They certainly haven't let us forget it (or maybe those hurt feelings come from being bounced around on the hardwood in Basketball for so many years??).
My response is that they should be thankful that as the northernmost State in the south, or at least the SEC, we are holding back the flood of wacky midwesterners. *GRIN*
Interesting that you talk about Winston County not seceding. I think there were a few counties here in Mississippi that didn't secede either. The south wasn't quite as unified as some might like to think during those crazy times of the Civil War.
KB