[killbilly usmc]

Why would a Hoosier from the flat land call an East Kentuckian a Yankee

Read about the Jackson purchase in the civil war sometime, and you will understand why. It was also referred to as the south Carolina of kentucky. The Jackson purchase was the first congressional district at that time, and there was 10 districts. It was the only district that voted in favor of secession from the union. All 7 counties at that time now 8(Carlisle county was a formed from ballard and Hickman later on) sent far more troops to the confederacy, than the union. The rest of Kentucky sent more troops to the union than the confederacy with the exception of 7 other counties, none of which are in eastern Kentucky. Is that a good enough explanation of why a flat lander from the swamps of western Kentucky would call someone from eastern Kentucky a yank.