I thought Missouri loves company.
Yeah but the potential company doesn’t like it back.
They should declare an armed war of secession…not from the United States…but from Missouri! Let them become the free cities of the prairies, the free cities of Kansas City and St. Louis…two new city-states on the planes!
For legal purposes, this is not an endorsement of acts of literal treason.
Major cities pop up around interesting geographical boundaries (like rivers) and that’s also where the state lines were drawn, I’m guessing. It’s why NYC is trying to get into NJ as well.
Pshh… too much thought put into a meme
I won’t let your grumpiness get in the way of my info dumping. Move along you sour blob of text.
ok but half of the US was drawn with rulers instead of rivers
Shoulda made straighter rivers
This is what the West would look like if divided into states along more natural boundaries, in this case the hydrological regions. This would have been a much more ideal way to set things up for longterm stability. Each region would be in control of its own watershed, in a region where control of water is everything.
What are you, hydrophobic?
Panama has entered the chat
That’s not a river though
And not straight
Panama has left the chat
Yep. Kansas City and St. Louis are both located at the confluence of 2 rivers. KC is at the Kansas-Missouri confluence, and St. Louis at the Missouri-Mississippi
Nobody in NYC wants to get into NJ!? Isn’t it just a necessary evil sometimes?
I want room service.
The city itself wants to escape to be with it’s other city brethren: Hoboken and Jersey City.
When one of your biggest cities is named after a different state
Kansas City existed before Kansas
Cuckssouri
St. Louis essentially is another state. I love going to the publicly-funded zoo.
Yet my proposal to St. Louis City Council to open a publicly funded human zoo keeps getting rejected year after year!
I guess Joplin or Branson would be the only other options, but I haven’t lived there in years.
KCMO does not want to be in another state, because it is far, far superior - and older than its Kansas counterpart, which oddly enough is named after it.
That’s right.
Kansas City, KS is named after Kansas City, MO
Yep. The Kansas River was originally named after the native Kansa (or Kaw) tribe. Then the city was named after the river. Then a while later, the state was also named after the river and the other city was named after the first city. Clear as the muddy river.
Branson is a shithole tourist trap that’s dead or dying.
Joplin is famous for its tornado.
those two aren’t doing Missouri any favors.
Wait, so Kansas City’s brilliant idea is to join fucking KANSAS!? Like…from the Dorothy tornado? Careful what you wish for, Kansas Citites.
Got halfway out of Kansas into Missouri and realized it wasn’t any better. Resigned themselves to being stuck.
Other way around. Kansas City, MO existed before Kansas City, KS.
I mean, we have lots of tornadoes in Missouri as well
maybe they were started on the other side of the line/river/whatever and expanded into missourah because land is so cheap. because no one wants to exist there. i don’t know if this is true or not but i have decided that regardless of history it is.
This is a phenomenal meme. Much better than the calorie stealing one. Not the bear I’ve seen ofc but it’s some clever observational humour. 8/10
Everyone loves coming to our party lake in the middle, though!
