I agree with what others have said. Kentucky would most likely officially secede from the US after a Confederate victory somewhere. I think that if the CSA won the Battle of Antietam then Kentucky would secede, and then Missouri may have followed it after another victory at somewhere such as Philadelphia or maybe even Washington, if Lee got his skates on.
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Those two sentences completely contradict each other.
By Antietam there was zero chance of Kentucky seceding.
Anaxagoras
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I think it's worth pointing out that, in the 1864 election, Missouri voted overwhelmingly for Lincoln while Kentucky voted overwhelmingly for McClellan.
Abhakhazia
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Kentucky has a Southern attitude throughout, while Missouri's north and center are more like neighboring downstate Illinois, Iowa and Kansas. Only the Arkansas like Ozarks are Southern-ish.
Unless you're trying to say that Missouri must have been really Unionist to vote for Lincoln, no, it isn't. Because "voting for McClellan means pro-Confederate sympathies" makes New Jersey hankering to secede too.
Abhakhazia: A Southern attitude throughout?
Even if that's true - and I don't know enough about Kentucky to say it isn't - what does that have to do with Kentuckians being less pro-union than Missourians?