Why Kentucky Is the Most Important State Nobody Talks About

Stand on the Indiana shore of the Ohio River and step into the water, and you are standing in Kentucky. Kentucky owns all 664 miles of the river all the way to the opposite bank. But owning an entire river is the least important thing this state quietly controls. Four separate times across two centuries, the United States took something it could not afford to lose and placed it in Kentucky. The reason was always the same: obscurity.