Meanwhile it’s the only place I’ve seen someone stick their head out of a car window and yell at a black person walking down the street to, and I will use their exact phrase as I remember it even 12 years later:

“Go back to monkey Island you stupid dirty niiiiiiiiiig…” And he was silenced by the car driving away before he could finish, but it should be obvious

Not a stupid question at all, lol. There are actually two different cities, both named Kansas City, on either side of the border:

It’s incredibly funny to me that the bigger one, and only one anyone talks about, isn’t the one in Kansas.

Kansas City

not in Kansas

St. Louis

not in Louisiana

Fun fact: St. Louis used to be in Louisiana.

Kansas has their own little Kansas City next to Kansas City, MO.

Both were named for the Kansas river. The location of the mouth of the Kansas river flowing into the Missouri establishes the longitude that the whole western border of Missouri (except for the Platte Purchase). Basically Kansas state is where the Kansas river flows and Kansas City began where the river ends.

Don’t feel too stupid, after all a former president of the United States once congratulated the state of Kansas after the Kansas City Chiefs won the Superbowl.

It’s in Missouri and Kansas both. St. Louis also exists on both sides of the river/border but East St Louis is always treated differently since it’s in a pretty desperate situation economically and no one seems to care.

Worth mentioning that all 4 of these cities operate under drastically different governments with no oversight over each other which shows when you compare them with each other

You can start by changing that demonym to “Missourable”. A group of them would be Les Missourables.

I’ll commissourate with you, bro