This is a question that I have asked, and have been asked thousands of times. Not once has someone been offended by the question until today. This dude starts talking to me about the storm, and we were just conversing, before I noticed that he did not have a Kentucky accent. So, I asked if he was from out West (I grew up out west). He says that he lives in the Lexington area (Nicholasville), and I asked, "So you were born and raised here?". He says "no" initially, then asked if I wanted to know if he was from Lexington, or from the US. I replied "Lexington". He gets offended, saying "I don't want to disclose that", then asked "Do you understand what I just said?!?", then asked me where I was from. I answered, in which he replied "nice to meet you". I left immediately thereafter. This dude is Middle-Eastern decent, but I never questioned his ethnicity. It seems like he either misunderstood me, or chose to get offended. Weird.