South Dakota is wrong, here. We call ourselves "South Dakotants", with a T sount at the end.
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I'd argue that Kentucky should be green. Sure the 'y' becomes an 'i', but it's still pronounced like Kentucky+-an so the difference is purely orthographic.
And changing a final 'y' to 'i' is extremely common when adding a suffix. (cf. happiness, beautiful, angrier)