The truth is that Kentucky even in their own state government realizes that their state is only 47th to 49th in just about every category because Mississippi is dead last in just about every category. Not to mention that a survey was published of the Congressional districts in Kentucky that was given out to various people in Kentucky. What they found was that their state themselves ranked 49th in their own perception of well being. These aren't just stats that someone can cherry pick but year over year and decade over decade going back to the 1930s, Kentucky regularly ranked 44th or worse in income going back decades. Not to mention that even during the 1970s when people made much less money than now, that Kentucky every year ranked around 20 percent below the standard of living that existed in Indiana at that time.
The facts are that Kentucky again ranks at the bottom of just about everything. Not to mention being supposedly with an IQ of 99 which is 3 points lower than the IQ in the states to the north of Kentucky. When reality is served, again Kentucky will always be the lower of the states mentioned including Ohio, Illinois, and even Michigan where countless more global corporations are located than Kentucky. Even outside of the crime ridden city of Detroit and its economic and social problems that have existed there for decades.
The average IQ in Indiana is 101.7 versus 99 in Kentucky. In truth, its much lower in Kentucky especially once you get out of the larger urban areas where professionals, doctors, lawyers, computer scientists, and other successful people live in large numbers. Considering that even state legislators in Kentucky say "Thank God For Mississippi" makes it immensely laughable at your assertions. Its even more laughable that the Washington Post in their flawed assessment ranks about 18 states below Kentucky which is one of the worst three or four states. The funny thing is that Kentucky even in 2014 and 2015 or so didn't even rank anywhere close to the top 20 in K-12 education in that even when overall state rankings were announced that Indiana and its school systems ranked in the top 20 of US states. In fact, Indiana was ranked 20th for its school systems while Kentucky was ranked 38th which was better than about any other time in the last 50 years where Kentucky usually ranks 42nd, 45th, etc.
Kentuckians at large are largely devoid of common sense as well as evidenced by countless acts of mass stupidity over the generations where people in other states including Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania and elsewhere have seen the stupidity and third world mentality that exists amongst the majority of the fools that come from Kentucky. See the issue is that when Kentuckians emigrate from their white trash state to other states, they always find a way to prove their ignorance and stupidity to the point that the people from those states to which they flee to realize their stupidity and have to keep the Kentucky white trash morons in their place.
Even more laughable is that Kentuckians regularly over the decades had to flee the white trash cesspool of the Ohio Valley to go to find work in other states so far flung as to relocate 300 or 400 miles or more just to find decent paying employment. The facts are that the steel mills of places like Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois regularly had hired former Kentucky residents because they knew they could pay them much less for the kind of work they were doing. However, the locals after finding out how stupid the Kentuckians truly were had derision for their ignorance and stupidity which is something that continues to this day. Even funnier is that Kentuckians regularly moved into states like Ohio where I also have extended family and were not well liked in places like Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus and the other countless smaller communities across that state. This was not all that long ago that this influx of Kentucky white trash morons went to other states especially from the 1940s to the late 1970s.
All because Kentucky had such a terrible economic climate in all those years that massive amounts of Kentucky residents had to flee North in order to find work. Even more funny is that I've personally known people from Kentucky who have said such over the years that they had to leave the cesspool of the Ohio Valley in order to go to other states to even find paying work doing most anything else instead of staying in Bumpkinville or other locations in Kentucky such as Henderson, Owensboro, Eastern Kentucky, etc.
Per Capita Income is the sole issue here as well because Kentucky again ranks 47th in per capita income behind some states like South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, as well as all of the Midwestern States along with the East Coast and West Coast. Kentucky even ranks below other Southern states, cough cough laugh when it comes to economic performance and is only ahead of Mississippi, West Virginia, and Arkansas when it comes to per capita income.
Which means that states such as the Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Virginia rank ahead of Kentucky. Not to mention the fact that those states have very little in the way of actual natural resources outside of oil in Louisiana that would actually boost their rankings out of proportion. Much less keep Kentucky from being a bottom feeder state in the bottom 5 or 10 states that it has been for years. The per capita GDP is laughable because this map shows that all of the surrounding states are again ahead of you with the exception of West Virginia. Even the industrially bombed out state of Michigan is ahead of you after decades of losing jobs to places overseas which is even more laughable because Kentuckians like to bring up Detroit as being indicative of Michigan. Which Detroit lost 66 percent of its population from 1950 of 2.1 million to 700,000 today of which many of them left the state and the others located in the more economically stable areas encircling Detroit.
The truth is again Kentuckian that these statistics don't like and the only real evidence you put out there is that Kentucky was ranked 28th in GDP as a whole which means very little because the truth is that Kentucky has more population than about 20 states of which many are much smaller population wise. Even so, you're still behind the other 45 states when it comes to economic performance and two sites here easily refute anything that you have to say. Its too bad that like most hilljacks from Kentucky that you're too moronic to read and actually learn something.
So let me list those sites one of which is from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the other is from the Open Data Network. Add in the fact that I got a lot of data from the US Census Bureau as well over the time that I've been rightfully bashing your state of dunces and intellectually deficient morons that can barely graduate high school much less achieve any other real educational program of substance.
https://www.bea.gov/regional/bearfacts/pdf.cfm?fips=21000&areatype=STATE&geotype=3
https://www.opendatanetwork.com/entity/0400000US21/Kentucky/economy.gdp.per_capita_gdp?year=2016
Another thing that should be mentioned is that none of the universities in Kentucky rank in the top 100 out of all of the public universities in the United States when measured in a ranking in 2017 by US News and World Report. Not one of them including U of L, UK, Western Kentucky, Morehead State, etc. Not even the acclaimed University of Louisville engineering programs or law school programs rank in the top 100 out of all of their peer universities in the United States of America. In fact, U of L has ranked in the 160th to 170th ranked universities for the better part of the past decade all despite being one of the universities in the United States with one of the largest financial endowments in the entire country. The only endowment that U of L was worried about is making sure that Rick Pitino was banging every piece of ass he could including the blonde bimbo that got nailed on the table at the second rate restaurant that she was being banged at after hours.
Add in the fact that the University of Kentucky, your so called esteemed athletic institution masquerading as a university did not even crack the top 100 in these rankings as well. Not to mention that they haven't been in the top 100 for the last decade as none of the state universities in Kentucky have made it into the top 100 much less top 125. The even more laughable thing is that according to the 2017-2018 US News and World Report Education Rankings, the difference between Indiana and Kentucky is that three large universities in the State of Indiana made the top 100 being that it was Notre Dame, Purdue, and Indiana University. While none of the schools from Kentucky cracked the top 100.
What does that say about the education system in Kentucky even at the collegiate level when people from Kentucky who live in Kentucky and most of whom are from Kentucky can't even raise the standard of their education experience into a decent level rather than remaining a bunch of third world neanderthals dripping at the mouth with rantings about UKAY basketball or U of L is number one and this championship is the most important thing in my life. Says a lot about the educational system in Kentucky which we ALL know is horrendously low quality and gives out nothing of real value in most cases. The latest rankings ranks your top school as being the University of Kentucky which ranks 133rd in the country. The laughingstock on Belknap Campus called the University of Louisville ranked 165th as it has ranked 150th and below for the majority of the last decade. Schools such as Eastern Kentucky and Western Kentucky ranked even lower. But that's Kentucky which ranks 41st in advanced education and 47th in educational attainment.
Let's talk about the public schools in Kentucky as well. Because its well known even outside of the state of Kentucky by people in the educational realm that Kentucky again ranks near the bottom of all states when it comes to educational outcomes. Let's talk about Louisville and the areas surrounding Louisville from the perspective of education. Not to mention the fact that Louisville is one of the worst educated cities in America with a population above 250,000 and has been for decades. Not to mention that even back in 2010 the Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville, Kentucky ranked 127th out of 154 Kentucky school districts in a state that regularly ranks in the low to mid 40s for public instruction. Here's some more facts from the Courier Journal newspaper in Louisville.
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2017/09/28/jcps-kentucky-student-test-scores-down-or-flat/682635001/
Oops did I read that correctly that the scores have flat lined and that only about half of the kids are actually proficient or distinguished in and actually in Jefferson County its even worse at 44.5 percent in reading and mathematics.
Even more funny yet quite sad is that the KPREP shows that only 49.4 percent of JCPS KPREP examinations were in the proficient or distinguished level for education in English. Or that in the Commonwealth of Kentucky its only 55.8 percent which means that nearly half of Kentucky graduates from high school can't even be proficient at English language.
Its even worse when it comes to Algebra in that JCPS students scored 35.3 percent while the state was 38 percent. That even students were ranked at 52.5 percent for US History in Jefferson County with the state average of 57.5 percent. Which means that these graduates from Kentucky schools consist of 42.5 percent of students not being able to be proficient in US History. All the while these people end up in the workforce maybe as well as being voters and they're not even smart enough to know their own national history.
Even more amazing is that JCPS (Jefferson County Public Schools )being supposedly one of the best financed educational systems in Kentucky due to its large size of 97,000 students isn't any better than dirt shack poor schools in rural areas. But not that much worse in that its only a few percentage points.
Add in the fact that just 50 percent of the graduates in high school are able to be proficient in things such as reading. The same sad story goes for mathematics for high school students at the JCPS with only 36 percent being proficient at math. The state statistics are no better though in that 55.8 percent are proficient at high school level reading comprehension. Not to mention math is even lower at 38 percent of the high school students being proficient at math.
The same results are evident from the statistics that are showed via the Kentucky Department of Education's own website which can be found here for the JCPS and versus state statistics. Because its obvious from the schools point of view that their students are barely at 50 to 55 percent of all students proficient at reading, writing, math, social studies. Which means that 45 percent of them are leaving school without tools to be successful at much of anything.
http://applications.education.ky.gov/SRC/DeliveryTargetByDistrict.aspx
It doesn't matter much between whether its those big city schools that have tens of thousands of minorities that you dislike or are disliked by the people in Pumpkin Patch or the fact that your rural schools in Kentucky outside of Louisville and Lexington are not any better than those of the JCPS.