"When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.” - Mark Twain
Okay, a short history of Kentucky politics. Prior to the mid 1980s, Kentucky was a one party state and that party was the Democrats. There were liberal Democrats, conservative Democrats, cross-burning Democrats, probably a handful of Maoist Democrats in the mix but they were all Democrats. Republicans were those weird goofy folks handing out pamphlets at the county fair. Region, county, family, and political clans were far more important than party, since they were all Democrats. But times changed. The Reagan revolution came to Kentucky right on schedule, twenty years later than anywhere else. The Democratic Party's hold on power was broken and the right wing Dems (and there were a lot of them in Kentucky) became Republicans while the liberals flocked to Gatewood Galbraith and then sort of wandered off. Kim Davis was a bit slower than most to jump parties, that's all.