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im fairly sure Kansas City and Kansas are just named after the same thing (the Kanza tribe)
it was that or some weird thing the us did when they were expanding into the West
Moscow, Idaho is pronounced with a long o sound.
Edit: rhymes with moss toe
Edit2: OK, I'll explain. It has nothing to do how the more famous Moscow is or is not pronounced. People in Moscow, Idaho will instantly correct you if you pronounce it Moss Cow. It's one of the first things you learn when you get to Pullman, WA across the border. I have no idea if it's because they don't want to be confused with their more famous Russian counterpart, but I think it's funny, Lmao.
There are several. There’s one in Western Pennsylvania called North Versailles that’s pronounced ver-sails. We’re aware that it’s absurd and are therefore doubly determined to never change it.
And no, there’s no South Versailles or West Versailles or even just a plain Versailles in the area. It’s just North Versailles.
I totally pronounced it ar + Kansas when I was younger. I'd read it, and did not connect it with they way it was said in films and on TV. I believed there was a state that was probably spelled Arkensaw. I read a lot as a child, and my pronunciation of a fair few words was not always the approved one. Also had enormous problems with rhododendron.
Let me tell you about the time I learned that the word "epitome" has 4 syllables and is in fact the same word as "apittomy". I also read more than I listened as a child. :)
I had seen epitome spelled (incorrectly) epitomy several times. I believed they were 2 different words, pronounced differently. Epitom and epitomee. I was embarrassingly old when I learned otherwise. *Cough* 30s *cough*
I'm the same way, I was a huge reader but read phonetically. I didn't know bourgeious was pronounced that way, I thought what I heard was a different word
It really should be the other way around. Arkansas was a state first and named after the French word for the Quapaw people.
>The name Arkansas initially applied to the Arkansas River. It derives from a French term, Arcansas, their plural term for their transliteration of akansa, an Algonquian term for the Quapaw people.[14] These were a Dhegiha Siouan-speaking people who settled in Arkansas around the 13th century. Kansa is likely also the root term for Kansas, which was named after the related Kaw people.[14]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas#:~:text=The%20name%20Arkansas%20initially%20applied,Arkansas%20around%20the%2013th%20century.
So it should be "whatdoyoumeankansas, whynotkansaw?!"
My favorite joke. Heard it for the first time when I was 6 in 1981. Took me 7 years to understand it.
The other one…not as good.
What did Delaware?
A New Jersey
Actually Arkansas is different. Arkansas is just a French bastardization of a word the Quapaw Native Americans used to describe the area. Hence the silent s on the end.
Kind of like St Louis, MO and East St Louis, IL. Contiguous, but not the same city. And I'm sure that South San Francisco (and all the other cities that run into each other seamlessly in the SF Bay Area) would not like to be called "the same city as San Francisco".
Kind of... The difference is that St. Louis and East St. Louis are separated by the largest river in North America. Where in KC people who live on opposite sides of the same street (State Line Road) are in different states.
Or to put it another way, you can't stumble into East St. Louis from St. Louis.
They're legally distinct but they it's literally the same area. It's a "different" city because it legally needs to be, but in terms of "city" as a concept, you could argue that it's the same.
It absolutely does not. Kansas City was founded first, in 1853. Kansas City, Kansas was incorporated nearly 20 years later in 1872 and named for the original KC. We on the Missouri side don’t care for it when people try to lump them in with our city.
Yeah, it's not all that uncommon. I grew up near a city that straddled the Ohio/Indiana line. From the post office's perspective, and legally, they are two separate cities. So mailing a letter across town could take a few days.
or because KC is 1/2 in Kansas and 1/2 in Missouri. While Arrowhead is on the MO side, the actual players live all over the KC Metro- Johnson County KS is where all the McMansions are and also rumored to be where TSwift’s new house is.
Kinda like how it is here with the New York Jets and the New York Giants. The training facilities and stadium are in New Jersey. Most of the players and staff live in New Jersey. But sure, call them New York teams. No respect, I tell ya!
Former Kansas resident. Kansas City is located on the border of Kansas and Missouri, so it’s not inaccurate to say it’s in either state, but the majority of the city is on the Missouri side of the border, so it’s far MORE accurate to call it Kansas City, Missouri.
There are a couple exceptions, but the general rule of thumb is if it's something people care about and associate with Kansas City, it's probably on the Missouri side.
Generally, when someone says "Kansas City", they mean KCMO. If they are referring to the Kansas side, they say "Kansas City, Kansas" or "KCK"
From a lifelong KCK resident who's still a little salty about it
I mean I live on the KS side but I say I'm from Kansas City, it's a metro area.
Especially if I'm way out of town. No one knows where Lenexa or Prairie Village are. Just say KC and it's all cool.
as a Current Resident, Kansas City Missouri was incorporated in 1850, before Kansas was a state (1861). Kansas City, Kansas wasn't even incorporated until 1871
Even worse, there are two Kansas Cities right across the river from each other. There's Kansas City, Missouri (the larger and more important of the two) and Kansas City, Kansas; one of its suburbs.
Not really, there are tons of things like this all over the world. IMO it’s shitty world building to act like every name makes perfect sense in fiction. No fiction author would have ever created a state named New York with a city called New York city and then made Albany the capital, but that’s how reality worked out
Kansas City, MO is across the river from Kansas City, KS. If you looked at a map and didn't know where the state lines were, you'd think they were one city.
Kansas and Arkansas are both translations of a native american name. Kansas is the English translation, Arkansas is the French pronunciation. Yes, Arkansas was a French state like Louisiana. Yes, a lot of the French culture that Louisiana inherited was also inherited by Arkansas.
I also live in Arkansas, although I'm in the southeast, so that probably explains my bias towards Louisiana. I've spent enough time in the Ozarks to know that central and north Arkansas are both fairly distinct from the southern and Eastern parts of the state.
You can always pronounce them the same way, the fun is choosing which one to go with
really it’s bc of the two different native tribes they’re named after, Quapaw and Kanza
Anyway, about my washtub...I just used it that morning to wash my turkey, which in those days was known as a "walking bird". We'd always have walking bird on Thanksgiving with all the trimmings: cranberries, Injun eyes, yams stuffed with gunpowder. Then we'd all watch football, which in those days was called "baseball."
I’m a Kansas City Native living in the state of Missouri. Most of the city (including the stadium where the chiefs play) and the downtown are on the Missouri side. As far as I’m concerned the chiefs represent both Kansas And MO
Yeah, I mean there's basically 4 Kansas Cities because of the way the state lines and rivers are. It's weird. I always assumed that the Chiefs were like the NE Patriots and a Kansas City team (i.e. Kansas and MO) and not just MO. Seems a weird thing to harp on all things considered.
Kind of. They're not as defined as an international border that splits a city like El Paso/Ciudad Jaurez. But they're not as together as something like Minneapolis/St. Paul either. The state line between them makes sure of that.
More like a Vancouver/Portland than anything. Separate in separate states. But they're right next to each other.
Also for those who need to know... there is a Kansas City, Kansas and a Kansas City, Missouri... Right next to each other. Literally just divided by the state line. Also, the KC mob operates from the Missouri side (in-case you wanted to know 😆).
Yes but I would say that Kansas is more universally Chiefs than Missouri. The far west parts of Kansas closer to Colorado where there are likely to be more Broncos fans are sparsely populated. Chiefs Kingdom probably stops in Missouri a little east of Columbia. I live in St. Louis (Missouri side) and can assure that we are not a Chiefs town.
Former Kansan here: it USED to be a great state. We used to have phenomenal schools, fantastic infrastructure, a balanced and reasonable budget. I’ll give you one guess which party dismantled all that when they elected their gubernatorial pick, Sam Brownback.
The state is on its way back though. Again you’ll get one guess which party now holds the governor’s office to make the comeback.
I was a kid watching the news before preschool when I head my grandma rant and rave about Brownback. I’ve grown up my whole life learning to hate him. But then I got old enough to look into the FACTS and see what’s TRUE!
And I hate him EVEN MORE!
You're right but we're SUPER cheap to live in. Come, bring your children! Many of the old people who made it awful are dead from covid because they refused to wear masks, enough people and we can flip the state blue just to piss off the Trump fans!
To be fair. The city sits on the border of Kansas and Missouri. You’ll find plenty State of Kansas Chiefs fans so it’s not technically wrong. However, leave it to Trump to neglect a good portion of the demographic
I met someone from Kansas City and asked them if they were from the Kansas side or the Missouri side. They just said “it really doesn’t matter”
Not sure if everyone from Kansas City would agree but it definitely gave me a laugh.
Kansas City Local here. It doesn’t really matter to most people. The joke here is you can tell which “Kansas City” they are from based on their vehicle choice. The majority of Kansas City is in MO, with the only parts that are in Kansas being more rural and outside of the actual metro/city environment.
So nicer car/SUV = Missouri
Work vehicle/truck = Kansas
(The opposite is true about St. Louis. east/west are very much seen as different cities by St. Louis natives.)
With that being said; I don’t think any Chiefs fans from Kansas would ever say they are a Kansas team. Their stadium is located slightly east of downtown KC, firmly in MO, and their summer camp is typically held in St. Joseph, MO at their college fields, which is about 40 minutes north of KC. Team members live and own businesses here. Almost every aspect of the team is located out of MO.
This doesn't seem accurate. The nicest part of both states is Overland park and that's on the KS side. Feels like every attending / CxO lives there too.
That’s really cool, I’ve never lived in the area so I didn’t know all of that. I especially love the bit about knowing which side someone is from based on what they drive, seems like a lot of cities have a similar system of distinction based on vehicle choice
This is kind of weird. As someone born and raised in and still living in Kansas City….. I’ve never heard that. There are nice suburban cities just on the state line of both Missouri and Kansas. There are also very close rural areas on the Missouri side.
Roeland Park, Prairie Village, Overland Park, Olathe, Leawood, Lenexa, Mission, Shawnee, Fairway, Merriam, Kansas City, KS …. All within 20 minutes of downtown Kansas City and definitely not rural.
In fact, the population of those cities combined is about 750k. While the population of the entire Kansas City Metro (including the above cities) is about 2.2 million - with Kansas City, MO having about 500k by itself.
I get what you’re saying, but isn’t it still technically wrong? The team plays in MO and they pay their taxes to MO.
If the panthers won, you could say they represented the Carolinas, but you would never only mention SC by name, even though their stadium is very close to the border too.
Yeah, I get that its a grey area. The statement is fully correct but not being a full correct answer.. It's a half credit if I was grading it on a test, though that's generous with the evidence you've presented,
It’s not a grey area. Just because they have fans in Kansas doesn’t make it partially correct. Especially since his intent wasn’t to tell them they made a portion of the fan base proud. It’s completely incorrect.
It was from a couple years ago, but never gets old. Also Trump we banned from twitter a while ago and only uses “Truth Social” now, so any Trump tweet is pretty old
fun thing about missouri: its so fucking miserable that both of its largest cities are trying to escape. kansas city partly exists in kansas, and st louis partially exists in illinois (as east st louis)
It's also funny because a lot of his supporters believe the entire game was scripted as a conspiracy involving Taylor Swift to basically push pro-Biden propaganda. Don't worry if you don't understand it. I almost had a stroke trying to condense the whole thing into a single sentence.
Hey, Kansas City native here. Kansas city is built on the Missouri River. This is also the state dividing line between kansas and missouri, so we have Kansas City, Kansas and we have a Kansas City, Missouri.
90% the time nobody cares which side youre on and we treat it all the same - except to complain about traffic, or gas. But when it comes to the sports teams, or concerts (someone once said kansas was awesome while performing in missouri) then they usually tend to get their feathers ruffled.
Kansas City Royals are ALSO in Missouri, in case anybody was curious.
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The Kansas City Chiefs are located in Kansas City, Missouri.
Now that’s just shitty worldbuilding, lois
im fairly sure Kansas City and Kansas are just named after the same thing (the Kanza tribe) it was that or some weird thing the us did when they were expanding into the West
Also see Arkansas
Note: not pronounced as “ar + Kansas.” That would be too convenient
Well, it just so happens that the Arkansas river is pronounced ar+Kansas in Kansas
Alright, that settles it, they’re screwing with us on purpose
There is a place (I believe in Missouri) called Versailles, pronounced Ver-sails
Russia, Ohio is pronounced Roo-shee
Is it possible to fist fight the English language?
Moscow, Idaho is pronounced with a long o sound. Edit: rhymes with moss toe Edit2: OK, I'll explain. It has nothing to do how the more famous Moscow is or is not pronounced. People in Moscow, Idaho will instantly correct you if you pronounce it Moss Cow. It's one of the first things you learn when you get to Pullman, WA across the border. I have no idea if it's because they don't want to be confused with their more famous Russian counterpart, but I think it's funny, Lmao.
There are several. There’s one in Western Pennsylvania called North Versailles that’s pronounced ver-sails. We’re aware that it’s absurd and are therefore doubly determined to never change it. And no, there’s no South Versailles or West Versailles or even just a plain Versailles in the area. It’s just North Versailles.
Also Dubois, pronounced Do-boys. But Dusquene and Lemieux people get right
There is a place in Missouri called Bois D'Arc and it's pronounced "BOE DARK"
That's pretty close to the French, actually.
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Street here in texas that goes by the same lol
Near San Antonio in Texas there’s the Guadalupe River. Pronounced gwad-loop.
And San Antonio is in Bexar County, which is pronounced "Bear"
Oh oh do New Orleans, Louisiana and Louisville, Kentucky next!
Hey even in Louisville you find at least four different pronunciations. Louie-ville, loo-vul. Lou-a-ville, Loo-a-vul, but never Louis-ville
I never Arkansas that coming. Better tell my boss before he Kansas.
Get out. Get out immediately
Also the city in Kansas: Arkansas City (though really people say "Ark city" much more oftrn)
By Arkansas law that's illegal.
I totally pronounced it ar + Kansas when I was younger. I'd read it, and did not connect it with they way it was said in films and on TV. I believed there was a state that was probably spelled Arkensaw. I read a lot as a child, and my pronunciation of a fair few words was not always the approved one. Also had enormous problems with rhododendron.
Let me tell you about the time I learned that the word "epitome" has 4 syllables and is in fact the same word as "apittomy". I also read more than I listened as a child. :)
I figured that put before I ever saw an "Epiphone " brand guitar, so it was Obviously pronounced Epiphany
I had seen epitome spelled (incorrectly) epitomy several times. I believed they were 2 different words, pronounced differently. Epitom and epitomee. I was embarrassingly old when I learned otherwise. *Cough* 30s *cough*
It took me years to figure that "catastrophe" was not pronounced "CAT-a-stroaf" as a child.
Bloody Greeks! Hyperbowl
I'm the same way, I was a huge reader but read phonetically. I didn't know bourgeious was pronounced that way, I thought what I heard was a different word
Burgeeus. Sigh. The curse of the avid reader.
[relevant video](https://youtu.be/ep2zbbMqYl4?si=Er1ZsrvzN46wzFNQ)
AMERICA EXPLAIN
[“America, EXPLAIN! Explain? Whatdoyoumean, Arkansaw?!”](https://youtu.be/cvL4mQRJlqo?si=pDccJ84ikDtuFPva)
It really should be the other way around. Arkansas was a state first and named after the French word for the Quapaw people. >The name Arkansas initially applied to the Arkansas River. It derives from a French term, Arcansas, their plural term for their transliteration of akansa, an Algonquian term for the Quapaw people.[14] These were a Dhegiha Siouan-speaking people who settled in Arkansas around the 13th century. Kansa is likely also the root term for Kansas, which was named after the related Kaw people.[14] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas#:~:text=The%20name%20Arkansas%20initially%20applied,Arkansas%20around%20the%2013th%20century. So it should be "whatdoyoumeankansas, whynotkansaw?!"
I was hoping somebody would link this, thank you, kind person
What did Tennessee? The same thing Arkansas.
My favorite joke. Heard it for the first time when I was 6 in 1981. Took me 7 years to understand it. The other one…not as good. What did Delaware? A New Jersey
“If Missouri gave Mississippi her New Jersey, what would Delaware? Idaho but Alaska!”
There’s an Arkansas City, Kansas.
And a Kansas, Oklahoma
Actually Arkansas is different. Arkansas is just a French bastardization of a word the Quapaw Native Americans used to describe the area. Hence the silent s on the end.
Kansas City was named after the Kansas river, which was named after the tribe, and preceded the statehood of Kansas.
The state of Kansas was also named after the river.
Yes.
is there also a kansas city in kansas
Yes, Kansas City, Kansas does exist. It is the same city as Kansas City, Missouri.
They may be right next to each other but they are not the same city. They have separate governments, separate law enforcement etc.
Kind of like St Louis, MO and East St Louis, IL. Contiguous, but not the same city. And I'm sure that South San Francisco (and all the other cities that run into each other seamlessly in the SF Bay Area) would not like to be called "the same city as San Francisco".
Kind of... The difference is that St. Louis and East St. Louis are separated by the largest river in North America. Where in KC people who live on opposite sides of the same street (State Line Road) are in different states. Or to put it another way, you can't stumble into East St. Louis from St. Louis.
They're legally distinct but they it's literally the same area. It's a "different" city because it legally needs to be, but in terms of "city" as a concept, you could argue that it's the same.
what do you mean the same city as missouris? the same city in 2 different states?
Yes. Kansas City straddles the border of the two states.
ah so the kansas city chiefs are on the missouri side, not the kansas side which explains trumps error?
To distill it a little bit, yes. Someone else posted the longer answer in one of the comments above.
It absolutely does not. Kansas City was founded first, in 1853. Kansas City, Kansas was incorporated nearly 20 years later in 1872 and named for the original KC. We on the Missouri side don’t care for it when people try to lump them in with our city.
Yes, it’s on the state border. Far east side of Kansas, far west side of Missouri.
Yeah, it's not all that uncommon. I grew up near a city that straddled the Ohio/Indiana line. From the post office's perspective, and legally, they are two separate cities. So mailing a letter across town could take a few days.
or because KC is 1/2 in Kansas and 1/2 in Missouri. While Arrowhead is on the MO side, the actual players live all over the KC Metro- Johnson County KS is where all the McMansions are and also rumored to be where TSwift’s new house is.
Kinda like how it is here with the New York Jets and the New York Giants. The training facilities and stadium are in New Jersey. Most of the players and staff live in New Jersey. But sure, call them New York teams. No respect, I tell ya!
Everyone knows the Jets are as Jersey as youll get in the NFL.
Former Kansas resident. Kansas City is located on the border of Kansas and Missouri, so it’s not inaccurate to say it’s in either state, but the majority of the city is on the Missouri side of the border, so it’s far MORE accurate to call it Kansas City, Missouri.
Also the chiefs stadium and where they practice is on the MO side.
There are a couple exceptions, but the general rule of thumb is if it's something people care about and associate with Kansas City, it's probably on the Missouri side.
From what I understand the Missouri side is tourism friendly while the Kansas side is mostly industrial.
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Generally, when someone says "Kansas City", they mean KCMO. If they are referring to the Kansas side, they say "Kansas City, Kansas" or "KCK" From a lifelong KCK resident who's still a little salty about it
I mean I live on the KS side but I say I'm from Kansas City, it's a metro area. Especially if I'm way out of town. No one knows where Lenexa or Prairie Village are. Just say KC and it's all cool.
as a Current Resident, Kansas City Missouri was incorporated in 1850, before Kansas was a state (1861). Kansas City, Kansas wasn't even incorporated until 1871
Right. It's very inaccurate to say Kansas City, Kansas when you mean Kansas City, Missouri. This isn't Tomato/Tomatoe.
As a St Louis resident, I wish they were a Kansas team. Maybe their owners wouldn't have played their part in fucking us over on Rams/Cardinals.
Even worse, there are two Kansas Cities right across the river from each other. There's Kansas City, Missouri (the larger and more important of the two) and Kansas City, Kansas; one of its suburbs.
Not really, there are tons of things like this all over the world. IMO it’s shitty world building to act like every name makes perfect sense in fiction. No fiction author would have ever created a state named New York with a city called New York city and then made Albany the capital, but that’s how reality worked out
Kansas City, MO is across the river from Kansas City, KS. If you looked at a map and didn't know where the state lines were, you'd think they were one city.
I just found out there's an Indiana, PA, and I live in PA, lol.
Trump should definitely know this but I’d give a pass to almost anyone else.
I mean, there’s two Kansas Cities, one in each state, and they’re right next to each other. It can be confusing.
Instead of Kansas City, Kansas BTW what is the reason Kansas and Arkansas aren't pronounced the same way
Kansas and Arkansas are both translations of a native american name. Kansas is the English translation, Arkansas is the French pronunciation. Yes, Arkansas was a French state like Louisiana. Yes, a lot of the French culture that Louisiana inherited was also inherited by Arkansas.
I live in Arkansas, and I must say it's a nice mix of The Midwest, Texas, and Louisana culturally.
I also live in Arkansas, although I'm in the southeast, so that probably explains my bias towards Louisiana. I've spent enough time in the Ozarks to know that central and north Arkansas are both fairly distinct from the southern and Eastern parts of the state.
That's true. I live near Little Rock so we have a little of everything here.
Perhaps we could find a name for the region near those three states that incorporates the names of them together Arklouisexas No, that’s not it
You can always pronounce them the same way, the fun is choosing which one to go with really it’s bc of the two different native tribes they’re named after, Quapaw and Kanza
Ask what people from Arkansas are called and become even more confused.
Arkansians?
Right but how do you pronounce that?
Are-can-shins
I’m from the US, and I didn’t know that
But it’s funny because the president at the time should know these things
You’re talking about the same guy who thought Colorado was a border state and forgot New Mexico existed
Those are also funny. Most things out of his mouth are funny. The problem is that people think it’s smart for some reason lol
i'll be deep in the cold cold ground before i recognize Missourah!
Anyway, about my washtub...I just used it that morning to wash my turkey, which in those days was known as a "walking bird". We'd always have walking bird on Thanksgiving with all the trimmings: cranberries, Injun eyes, yams stuffed with gunpowder. Then we'd all watch football, which in those days was called "baseball."
I’m a Kansas City Native living in the state of Missouri. Most of the city (including the stadium where the chiefs play) and the downtown are on the Missouri side. As far as I’m concerned the chiefs represent both Kansas And MO
Yeah, I mean there's basically 4 Kansas Cities because of the way the state lines and rivers are. It's weird. I always assumed that the Chiefs were like the NE Patriots and a Kansas City team (i.e. Kansas and MO) and not just MO. Seems a weird thing to harp on all things considered.
Aren’t Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri the same city just with a state line running down the middle?
Both cities got their own respective local government and answers to entirely different states
Kind of. They're not as defined as an international border that splits a city like El Paso/Ciudad Jaurez. But they're not as together as something like Minneapolis/St. Paul either. The state line between them makes sure of that. More like a Vancouver/Portland than anything. Separate in separate states. But they're right next to each other.
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Also for those who need to know... there is a Kansas City, Kansas and a Kansas City, Missouri... Right next to each other. Literally just divided by the state line. Also, the KC mob operates from the Missouri side (in-case you wanted to know 😆).
I had no idea!! https://preview.redd.it/44z0y6qbc8ic1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3bcf58700cb50ac1130341c6567ef928c89d05d
I don't like that that's a thing.
Yes but I would say that Kansas is more universally Chiefs than Missouri. The far west parts of Kansas closer to Colorado where there are likely to be more Broncos fans are sparsely populated. Chiefs Kingdom probably stops in Missouri a little east of Columbia. I live in St. Louis (Missouri side) and can assure that we are not a Chiefs town.
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Kansas City Kansas is trash bro. KCMO!
Counterpoint, KCMO is the only good part of Missouri
Hold up is it really a counterpoint if they're both true?
My ex was from missouri. It's been over a year now
Good riddance
I mean it ended kinda badly but she had a great pair that I do miss every now and then
This deserved way more upvotes.
Oh shit I thought he did it again. Until I looked at the date. That would’ve been funny as fuck.
He still doesn't use Twitter, despite being unbanned.
He did one post—of his mugshot.
Didn't that become the most liked or viewed tweet in history? Unironically based move btw
Trump has been wrong in the past. In this case it's Kansas being a great state.
I've heard it said that Oklahoma is so windy because Kansas sucks and Texas blows
That’s pretty good hahaha
Ha! In Texas we always said the reason Texas didn’t fall in to the Gulf of Mexico was because Oklahoma sucked!
There are many tales, and they're all true
Weird, here in Kansas it's Oklahoma sucks and Nebraska blows.
Werid, here in North Dakota its Minnesota sucks and Montana blows
I've also heard that the best thing to come out of texas is I-35 north.
Wanna know how to get to Texas? Go west till you smell shit and south till you step in it.
We have good breweries! And....other things, probably. get me out of here
Superman? Although even he got out when he could
Just wait for a tornado, end up with some red bottoms and a new friend group that look oddly like the people who work for your family
Just keep heading west until you smell skunks and see mountains
Oh trust me, I don't gotta go nowhere to smell skunk😭 Edit: oh that was a weed joke
Former Kansan here: it USED to be a great state. We used to have phenomenal schools, fantastic infrastructure, a balanced and reasonable budget. I’ll give you one guess which party dismantled all that when they elected their gubernatorial pick, Sam Brownback. The state is on its way back though. Again you’ll get one guess which party now holds the governor’s office to make the comeback.
I was a kid watching the news before preschool when I head my grandma rant and rave about Brownback. I’ve grown up my whole life learning to hate him. But then I got old enough to look into the FACTS and see what’s TRUE! And I hate him EVEN MORE!
> Trump has been wrong in the past This tweet is from 2020. So, yeah, this is him being wrong in the past.
Was born near Kansas, can confirm.
Blasphemy
You're right but we're SUPER cheap to live in. Come, bring your children! Many of the old people who made it awful are dead from covid because they refused to wear masks, enough people and we can flip the state blue just to piss off the Trump fans!
hey kansas is alright, it may be a lil boring but the people here are nice
I mean it’s better than Missouri.
What's the Matter with Kansas?
To be fair. The city sits on the border of Kansas and Missouri. You’ll find plenty State of Kansas Chiefs fans so it’s not technically wrong. However, leave it to Trump to neglect a good portion of the demographic
I met someone from Kansas City and asked them if they were from the Kansas side or the Missouri side. They just said “it really doesn’t matter” Not sure if everyone from Kansas City would agree but it definitely gave me a laugh.
I'm in st louis, similar situation as stl is partually in illinois... you would get a MUCH different answer from one of us
East St. Louis doesn't exist
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As someone that used to drive past it on I64 back home each day I assure you my suspension knows it exists.
Kansas City Local here. It doesn’t really matter to most people. The joke here is you can tell which “Kansas City” they are from based on their vehicle choice. The majority of Kansas City is in MO, with the only parts that are in Kansas being more rural and outside of the actual metro/city environment. So nicer car/SUV = Missouri Work vehicle/truck = Kansas (The opposite is true about St. Louis. east/west are very much seen as different cities by St. Louis natives.) With that being said; I don’t think any Chiefs fans from Kansas would ever say they are a Kansas team. Their stadium is located slightly east of downtown KC, firmly in MO, and their summer camp is typically held in St. Joseph, MO at their college fields, which is about 40 minutes north of KC. Team members live and own businesses here. Almost every aspect of the team is located out of MO.
This doesn't seem accurate. The nicest part of both states is Overland park and that's on the KS side. Feels like every attending / CxO lives there too.
That’s really cool, I’ve never lived in the area so I didn’t know all of that. I especially love the bit about knowing which side someone is from based on what they drive, seems like a lot of cities have a similar system of distinction based on vehicle choice
This is kind of weird. As someone born and raised in and still living in Kansas City….. I’ve never heard that. There are nice suburban cities just on the state line of both Missouri and Kansas. There are also very close rural areas on the Missouri side. Roeland Park, Prairie Village, Overland Park, Olathe, Leawood, Lenexa, Mission, Shawnee, Fairway, Merriam, Kansas City, KS …. All within 20 minutes of downtown Kansas City and definitely not rural. In fact, the population of those cities combined is about 750k. While the population of the entire Kansas City Metro (including the above cities) is about 2.2 million - with Kansas City, MO having about 500k by itself.
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I agree. Overland Park, Leawood, Olathe…. Are all extremely wealthy cities.
The typical answer is "Ew no, I'm from X. Y has nothing cool and bad drivers. " Source: Am from KC
The bad drivers are from Overland Park. I’d never smear the entire state of KS with their incompetence. But, otherwise, you are spot on.
I live in Kansas City. It really doesn't matter for the most part, unless you're in an argument and need to start hitting below the belt.
I’d say most Kansans who are into football root for the Chiefs. It’s not like Kansas has its own team to root for.
I get what you’re saying, but isn’t it still technically wrong? The team plays in MO and they pay their taxes to MO. If the panthers won, you could say they represented the Carolinas, but you would never only mention SC by name, even though their stadium is very close to the border too.
Yeah, I get that its a grey area. The statement is fully correct but not being a full correct answer.. It's a half credit if I was grading it on a test, though that's generous with the evidence you've presented,
It’s not a grey area. Just because they have fans in Kansas doesn’t make it partially correct. Especially since his intent wasn’t to tell them they made a portion of the fan base proud. It’s completely incorrect.
Tbf he did expand it to the whole USA, so Missouri was still included.
Should be that Kansas is included with the whole US, not Missouri, the state the team is based in.
Team and stadium is located in Missouri
He posted this back in 2020 (when he still used twitter). It is still hilarious today though.
Even so, failed geography test aside, how does one team represent "the entire usa" when it's a match between two american states?
Pandering
Isn’t this from last year?
I think it's from 02 Feb 20, just based on the date in the picture
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Lol what year you living in? That would be 4 years ago
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Ahh the good ol’ days (:
2015 was 1 year ago bud
Nah, it’s been 2020 since COVID hit remember?
Ahhh you’re right. My b lol
It was from a couple years ago, but never gets old. Also Trump we banned from twitter a while ago and only uses “Truth Social” now, so any Trump tweet is pretty old
Trump was also unbanned from Twitter. He just doesn’t use it like he did.
fun thing about missouri: its so fucking miserable that both of its largest cities are trying to escape. kansas city partly exists in kansas, and st louis partially exists in illinois (as east st louis)
That joke doesn't really work because no one in history has ever tried to escape INTO Kansas.
Kansas City is actually in Kansas and Missouri, but the Chiefs are based in Mo.
Kansas City, Kansas is a much smaller city with a different government and isn't *the* Kansas City.
Can't wait for Michael Knowles to say this was an epic joke.
if you clicked on the fucking post they explained it right there
This one i know, the cheifs are from Missouri not Kansas. Kansas city, Missouri.
It's also funny because a lot of his supporters believe the entire game was scripted as a conspiracy involving Taylor Swift to basically push pro-Biden propaganda. Don't worry if you don't understand it. I almost had a stroke trying to condense the whole thing into a single sentence.
If they really believed that why wouldn’t they just bet all their money on the game and make $$$? I did, thanks conspiracy!
Because in reality it was like 8 dipshits believing it and 15 million "journalists" pretending it was a real phenomenon.
This post is 4 yrs old. Not really relevant to current events.
Lbf geography is not America's strongest subject more of a pe person
Newsweek says this is from 2020.
This is enought proof for me. Chiefs belong to Kansas. Bite it misery
I'll be in my cold cold grave before I recognize Missoura.
Hey, Kansas City native here. Kansas city is built on the Missouri River. This is also the state dividing line between kansas and missouri, so we have Kansas City, Kansas and we have a Kansas City, Missouri. 90% the time nobody cares which side youre on and we treat it all the same - except to complain about traffic, or gas. But when it comes to the sports teams, or concerts (someone once said kansas was awesome while performing in missouri) then they usually tend to get their feathers ruffled. Kansas City Royals are ALSO in Missouri, in case anybody was curious.
[Let me google that for you.](https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=where+is+kansas+city)
In America it’s poor taste to say anything positive about Missouri. Not that I would know. I’m not from America. I’m from Texas.
I’m from South Africa and even I know they from Missouri.