(I don’t actually have any opinions about Missouri)

  • Makeitstop@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    People always pick on Missouri, but whenever I’ve been there, I’ve always found the locals to be kind and welcoming. It really is true, Missouri loves company.

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      2 months ago

      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

    • MagicPterodactyl@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      I’d never heard of this particular Springfield so I looked it up. According to Wikipedia St. Louis is the 22nd largest city by population in the US and Kansas City is 34th. Neither are huge but I think major city applies. Springfield on the other hand ranks 143rd. I’m not even sure most people would consider it a city.

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        2 months ago

        Woah woah woah. Springfield is definitely a city. It says so right in the logo:

        A screenshot of the home page of the website springfieldmo.gov (the official website for Springfield Missouri) showing only the top-left corner of the page (pretty much just the logo and the address bar of the browser showing the url). Just beside the logo it says "City Of Springfield".

        (Real talk, folks. I don’t care if anyone considers Springfield a “major city” or even a “city” at all. It’s just funny to think of an anthropomorphic caricature of Springfield, Missouri crying over a perceived slight to its ego.)

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        2 months ago

        To clarify, that’s by metro district. St Louis is 76th by the population inside its city boarders. It’s about 100k more than Springfield, MO.

        Suburban sprawl sucks.

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      2 months ago

      No one sober would ever consider Springfield MO or Springfield IL to be anywhere near the word MAJOR city. Both are destitute compared to the actual cities in their states

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    2 months ago

    I live in the eastern one, many of us would absolutely love to join Illinois instead of Missouri. We pretty much hate this state

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    2 months ago

    I’ve heard a similar joke about Mississippi. Mississippi has two major cities: Memphis and New Orleans.