As an addendum: 

I find it terribly ironic that Mitch McConnell hails from Kentucky, the birth place of Abraham Lincoln, who held the Republic together by holding Kentucky for the Union, thereby vanquishing the South and its evil institution of slavery. Lincoln wrote:

"I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game. Kentucky gone, we cannot hold Missouri, nor Maryland. These all against us, and the job on our hands is too large for us. We would as well consent to separation at once, including the surrender of this capitol."

It seems that after all these years Kentucky was finally lost at the hands of Mitch McConnell, and the South has indeed risen again - angrier, whiter, and more resentful than ever.