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EDIT - AH, I just googled it. I like Dust In The Wind by Kansas better than Carry On My Wayward Son. Was Kansas (the band) not popular everywhere in the 70s? Living in Kansas I hear their music, and I just assumed everyone had heard it. But when I googled South Park and Kansas song, I saw people asking what that song was, and that surprises me. Maybe it's just younger people who weren't around in the 70s/80s to know.
What I dislike about Kansas is that when people ask you where you are from, and you tell them, 80% of them blurt something idiotic from the Wizard of Oz. And you can't win. Having heard it several hundred times, if it was ever funny, it no longer is, so you can hardly pretend to laugh. But if you don't act like it's the first time you ever heard the joke--either by long-suffering strained silence, or outright scowling--you come off churlish. I just wish that story had been set in Missouri. (Although, maybe the author considered that, and realized that a story in which no one wore shoes would sound a little odd.)
did you personally know Aunti Anne, or Mrs Gulch...she was such a wicked witch I hear.
Kansas does have the chalk pyramids (Monument Rocks)....oh!, and that 15 foot tall gopher out in Oakley!
But it’s so easy to pile on!
I mean, Kansas has to be the least interesting state in the entire united states. The only thing it has that is even remotely positive is a bunch of suburbs of a city in another state, suburbs that could be anywhere in America.
Seriously, who goes to Kansas for anything? The state named itself after Kansas City was already named Kansas City, then proceeded over the next century to drag its name through the mud and create an image of itself as a bible thumping, barren wasteland and in doing so, creating the same image of Kansas City, when in reality, Kansas City, MO is about as non-kansas as you can get.
Even the tourism slogan for the state is totally retarded. “as big as you think”? What in the world does that even mean?
The state has been dead last out of all 50 states in almost every tourism poll that asks people what states they would like to visit.
There just isn’t anything in Kansas and everything that many people think is in Kansas is actually in Missouri, so the very few people that would go to Kansas probably only said so because that’s where they think the things that KC offers are located.
So my biggest dislikes with Kansas is two-fold.
The state gives KC is horrible image. People don’t think of KC as a large, cosmopolitan, urban city set in rolling hills that it is, but rather simply think “Kansas” and the Wizard of Oz, flat farmland, cows and tornadoes.
So many Kansas residents of the KC area look down on KCMO and MO even though the only reason their perfect little suburbs exist is because of KCMO and KS would be a desolate state with zero growth if it didn’t have those suburban counties feeding off of MO for everything from entertainment to economic development.
It’s gotta be the only state that has to use photos of a city in another state that it hates (KCMO) to get people to visit.
But they do have a nascar track, and they actually built it on their own, they didn’t have to take it from the MO side!
I mean, Kansas has to be the least interesting state in the entire united states. The only thing it has that is even remotely positive is a bunch of suburbs of a city in another state, suburbs that could be anywhere in America.
Seriously, who goes to Kansas for anything? The state named itself after Kansas City was already named Kansas City, then proceeded over the next century to drag its name through the mud and create an image of itself as a bible thumping, barren wasteland and in doing so, creating the same image of Kansas City, when in reality, Kansas City, MO is about as non-kansas as you can get.
Even the tourism slogan for the state is totally retarded. “as big as you think”? What in the world does that even mean?
The state has been dead last out of all 50 states in almost every tourism poll that asks people what states they would like to visit.
There just isn’t anything in Kansas and everything that many people think is in Kansas is actually in Missouri, so the very few people that would go to Kansas probably only said so because that’s where they think the things that KC offers are located.
So my biggest dislikes with Kansas is two-fold.
The state gives KC is horrible image. People don’t think of KC as a large, cosmopolitan, urban city set in rolling hills that it is, but rather simply think “Kansas” and the Wizard of Oz, flat farmland, cows and tornadoes.
So many Kansas residents of the KC area look down on KCMO and MO even though the only reason their perfect little suburbs exist is because of KCMO and KS would be a desolate state with zero growth if it didn’t have those suburban counties feeding off of MO for everything from entertainment to economic development.
It’s gotta be the only state that has to use photos of a city it hates (KCMO) to get people to visit.
But they do have a nascar track, and they actually built it on their own, they didn’t have to take it from the MO side!
what do you mean no places for the tourists, what about smallville, Jericho, the Emerald City, Munchkin Land?
when in reality, Kansas City, MO is about as non-kansas as you can get.
Which is fine with us.
And I realize that you're trolling to a large extent, so if you can't beat 'em, join 'em:
I disagree that KS wants to be like MO. We never have - hence 150+ years of animosity. You have such a cynical and double sided view. You accuse KS of wanting to be like MO, and but then you get mad because we're not what you think we should be.
How about you just enjoy your city and your state and leave KS to what it wants to be? No, KS is not a big tourism draw. Thank goodness for that! But there are plenty of things to see and do here if one chooses to look for them. And honestly, I'm glad a lot of people don't - because it makes it more enjoyable for us!
Those people who don't know that Kansas City is two cities in two states plus suburbs on both sides - well, I think you give way too much weight to their opinions. Who really cares what people think who have never been here, have no intention of coming, and would form an opinion about us based on no information? (Answer: you, I guess)
As far as image, KCMO doesn't need any help trashing their image. They do a fine job of that on their own. Problem is, you want to blame JoCo for everything that you think KCMO could be but isn't.
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People don’t think of KC as a large, cosmopolitan, urban city set in rolling hills that it is
Because it isn't.
It's not like any other metro area - and wishful thinking won't make it so. We in JoCo realize this and we are quite fine with it.
This makes you mad.
We don't really care.
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It’s gotta be the only state that has to use photos of a city in another state that it hates (KCMO) to get people to visit.
This is the second time you have mentioned this. Can you please link me to one example of this? I have never seen one and I think you are blowing smoke again.
I don't care for Kansas either but Kansas City Mo is known as a Cow Town, Cows from Kansas
That was true in the past, but not as much anymore. The true cow towns have shifted from the Midwest to the Plains. Some examples would be Garden City, Dodge City, and Liberal. All three of these towns make up the southwest Kansas "triangle." All have significant meatpacking, feedlot, and slaughterhouse operations along with huge amounts of irrigated corn nearby to fatten up the cattle.
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