Missouri and Kentucky, although they owned slaves, opted not to join the Confederacy and West Virginia separated from Virginia and joined the Union during the Civil War are often lumped in with the former Confederate states when discussing "the South." Why is this?
What caused the cultural attitudes of these states to become more aligned with the South and have the same"Lost Cause" attitudes other Southern states embraced?
I guess I'm asking because it appears these three states have many memorials, including statues, remembering/honouring the Confederacy despite two of them not even being a part of it, and one of them separating outright. That and how nowadays, these states are often lumped with the Southern states when such discussions come up.
For West Virginia, I answered the basic question some days ago:
It stayed a segregated place into the 20th c. in very significant ways. Schools, certainly. Coal towns were also segregated, and if you were black you often got tougher jobs: like working the coke ovens. But black voters were not disenfranchised, like in , say, Mississippi, and could be government employees.