From the Louisville Courier-Journal: Berry Craig: Why the May 17 primary will be historic in the old 'Gibraltar of Democracy'

By BERRY CRAIG

For the first time ever, not a single Democrat is running for the state legislature from the Jackson Purchase, once Kentucky’s most devoutly Democratic district.

After he was elected vice president in 1856, Lexington Democrat John C. Breckinridge purportedly proclaimed western Kentucky’s First Congressional District, especially the Purchase, “Solid as Gibraltar” for his party.

More than a century and a half later, the GOP rules the roost. Republicans represent all eight Purchase counties in the state House and Senate.

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