KCMO Proper should be in Kansas-Here's why (Jackson: school, moving)

[brewcrew1000]

KCMO proper almost seems like a better fit from a geographic standpoint to be in Kansas? There are natural boundaries already in place like the Missouri River along the north and the Blue River Valley along the East.

Even if you look on household Population maps, the kansas side flows so much more with KCMO proper then Eastern Jackson County and the Northland because of the natural boundaries as well as industrial areas making the areas more disconnected.

Too bad KCMO wasn't in Kansas, because you would have one KC, KCK would probably just be apart of KCMO or just called Wyandotte. St Louis would be the Primary town in Missouri and Kansas would have a nice sized city instead of nothing. Who knows

Here is a map i made showing the new border changes for Kansas and Missouri

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&ie=UTF8&ll=39.001043,-94.538727&spn=0.313766,0.500565&z=11&msid=21689832 2743298024743.0004a6da26c5839075ff9

[xenokc]

I've thought about what you have many times. I would be up for donating KCMO to KS if the capital moved from Topeka to downtown KC.

[aragx6]

That would simply ensure, forever more, that no democrat is elected to any federal office in MO. This would make me very sad and as such I'm glad KCMO is right where it is.

Can't argue with your point that geographically it would make a fair amount of sense though!

[kcmo]

Originally Posted by aragx6

That would simply ensure, forever more, that no democrat is elected to any federal office in MO. This would make me very sad and as such I'm glad KCMO is right where it is.

Can't argue with your point that geographically it would make a fair amount of sense though!

I have always thought that KC would be better off if the entire metro were in one state. Moving the state line and still leaving 1/3 of the population in MO solves nothing though. If that were the city limits of KCMO, then who's to say that all that growth that went to JoCo wouldn't have gone to the MO suburbs instead of JoCo for all the same reasons it went to joco?

The MO suburbs could poach companies more easily, the MO side would be an escape route from the threat of school desegregation, just as the KS side was in the 70's and 80's.

Everything would just reverse.

Put the entire metro in one state or at least 90% of it.

As far as Kansas being the better option. While I'm not fan of how Missouri treats KCMO, what the hell has Kansas done with KCK? The threw a suburb onto the side of it. The rest of the city is pretty much a joke.

As much as metro KC people love to rip on KCMO, as an urban city, it's light-years ahead of KCK and it really is a pretty nice city despite the issues it has. Kansas has proven it has no interest in urban areas and had made suburban sprawl it's number one priority. Do you really want kcmo in such a state? Do you really want KCMO's top attraction and area to be zona rosa while the rest of the city rots and hasn’t changed (for the better) in 60 years?

What KC needs is a metropolitan overlay government. That won't happen either, but it has a slightly better chance of happening than moving the state line.