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Flag of MissouriMO

Missouri

Held by showmebetter under the Progressive flag, for $15.

“You promised a factory and delivered a press release. Show me, then”

showmebetter paid $15 to put that there.

Take it for

$23

Take it

The place

Joined 1821 · 24th state · Border state in the Civil War · Central time

Missouri is the country's hinge, where the plains meet the South and the Mississippi meets the Missouri. It sent people west from St Louis and Independence for a century. Kansas City and St Louis are different cities with different barbecue and a real rivalry, and between them is the Ozarks, which is its own culture. Go for the Gateway Arch, which is taller than it looks and has no straight lines in it, and float a river in the Ozarks in summer.

The Gateway Arch is the tallest monument in the country and has no straight lines.

Eat

Toasted ravioli

Drink

Anheuser-Busch

Listen

Chuck Berry

Bird

Eastern bluebird

Flower

Hawthorn

Tree

Flowering dogwood

Grows

Soybeans, Corn, Rice

National parks

  • Gateway Arch

The actual state · 2025

Population
6,270,541
Land area
68,746 mi²
GDP per head
$74,710
Median household
$71,583
Joined
Joined 1821
Civil War
Border state

Largest cities

  • 1Kansas City516K
  • 2St. Louis280K
  • 3Springfield171K
  • 4Columbia131K
  • 5Independence122K

Race

  • White80.0%
  • Black11.5%
  • Two or more4.9%

Hispanic or Latino5.9%

Counted across all races, so it overlaps the figures above.

1 claim

  1. showmebetter planted the Progressive flag in Missouri, $15, unopposed.

    “You promised a factory and delivered a press release. Show me, then”

    · $15