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Originally Posted by Centropolis
illinois is a more populous state but i’d argue that missouri has the most incoherent identity in the midwest. i mean what comes close except for dissecting kentucky and categorizing the midwestern guts of louisville or something?
indiana is just hard up midlands and i’ve never seen rice or cotton fields in indiana.
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Missouri feels similar to Ohio to me in that they both occupy blurred territory between the north and south. Both states have cities at either end that kind of 'pull' opposite ways. St. Louis feeling like the last eastern city, and KC feeling like the first western one sort of feels like the Cleveland/Cincy dynamic. Missouri's Ozark region is probably not too dissimilar from Ohio's Appalachian quadrant.
Granted, I've only spent a bit of time in KC and St. Louis on some road trips, so I am no Missouri expert by any means. And outside of those cities, I didn't venture off I-70. But I picked up a bit of an Ohio vibe. The spacing of the cities, and the fact that they are roughly equal sized also felt familiar, I suppose.
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