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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
Kansas City, MO into Kansas.
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If for no other reason than to end the confusion surrounding their names.
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This. You would not believe how many people I encounter who think Kansas City is in Kansas. And of course, there really is a KCK, but it's not what one usually means when one says "Kansas City."
I was really surprised at this when I moved here. Even when I was a kid I knew Kansas City was in Missouri.
Frankly, rather than move KC into Kansas, I think they should instead rename Kansas City (MO of course). There's a "Missouri City" not far from KC, and maybe they could merge, but I don't think the folks of Missouri City would take kindly to that.
A better idea I thought of would be to change the name of KCMO to "Truman." There's tons of Truman-this and Truman-that around here, so it would be a natural thing to use for a city name.
"Truman, Missouri."
So the Chiefs would become the Truman Chiefs and the Royals would become the Truman Royals.
Or maybe you use "Truman City." Then it would be the Truman City Chiefs and the Truman City Royals.
Since Truman was a democrat republicans might get upset.
Too bad. There's all kinds of Lincoln-stuff in Illinois even though Lincoln was a republican and Illinois is dominated by democrats.