12/05/2026
St. Charles County, of course, is closer to STL than KC… but who do we really identify with? STL, KC? Or are we the “in between”?
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Missouri contains two cities that share a state border, a fondness for barbecue, and absolutely no agreement on what barbecue actually means or which baseball team represents the soul of the state. Kansas City sits on the western edge.
St. Louis sits on the eastern edge. In between is a lot of farmland that wishes both cities would calm down.
Kansas City does burnt ends, measures highways by number, bleeds Chiefs red, and considers itself basically a nicer version of Texas.
St. Louis does toasted ravioli, names roads like they're personal friends, worships the Cardinals, and puts provel cheese on things that have never asked for provel cheese.
These are not compatible worldviews. They share a state government and that is largely where the cooperation ends.
The Kansas City perspective on St. Louis is that it is an old river town with good baseball and inexplicable pizza and a concerning attachment to a giant arch. The St. Louis perspective on Kansas City is that it is a sprawling cowtown with decent barbecue and an NFL team that took thirty years to win anything and won't stop talking about it now. Both cities consider themselves the real Missouri. The rest of Missouri considers both cities a different state entirely.
What unites them is a deep suspicion of Chicago, a love of cheap beer, and the knowledge that people from the coasts cannot locate Missouri on a map. What divides them is everything else. They have been arguing since the Civil War when they were literally on opposite sides and the metaphor has held ever since.
The BBQ rivalry alone has generated more opinions than the state legislature and both cities consider this appropriate.
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