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Kentucky has already made great strides protecting our Civil War battlegrounds. Thanks to not-for-profit organizations, “friends” groups, public-private partnerships, volunteers, grants, donors, the American Battlefield Trust and state and local governments, the past 25 years have been a golden age for Bluegrass state battlefield preservation.

"Moral force is necessary for moral change to take place," Richard Nelson, executive director of the Commonwealth Policy Center, writes in a viewpoint for Hoptown Chronicle. "The force that animated abolitionists to end slavery in the 19th century and propelled the civil rights movement of the 1960s must be embraced if we’re to see full reconciliation between the races in the 21st century."

Berea College was the first racially integrated, coeducational college in the South, serving equal numbers of black and white students until the Kentucky legislature forced school segregation in 1904.

While the transplant policy is well-intentioned, the fact is the governing board creating and directing the policy is dominated by officials from large urban, coastal areas. The resulting policy benefits those areas.