Are you liberal, or conservative?
If you voted...um....Liberally, We're full, stay out west. We'd hate to have to run you out.
If you voted conservatively, we can make room for you. We like minorities....y'know, like orange people.
The people are great but you'd better be ready. Our women aren't typically skinny unless they're on Meth, and there's plenty of the Bubba here. We like the way we live, and we don't want to change it, so you'd better be ready to do the changing if you don't like something here. A wave and a smile will get you pretty far in southern Missouri. If you want gun control, I might as well say GTFO now and save you the trouble. Still plenty of high schools here with shotguns in the pickups in the parking lot, and rifles during deer season and we teach our high school kids how to shoot. Kansas is considering mandatory gun safety training K-12 (God I hope Missouri follows that one).
Our cost of living is low. Don't mess that up for us.
Also, you'd better like humidity, we have a lot of it. And weather extremes. 110 in the summer with 100% humidity, and can hit 10-20 below some seasons. I'll often go from furnace running to AC running in the span of a day or two. I've seen 5-8" of snow in May, and I've ridden Springfield to KC (3 hours) in shirtsleeves in January on a 70 degree day, and had to ride home in the snow in shirtsleeves the next day.
Plenty of Mopar people here and that's true of 'car people' in general.
Get a map, follow I-44. The tornadoes tend to follow the interstates and hit the cities here, for some reason or another and that's as true in Kansas City as it is in SWMO. I lived in right in between Springfield and Joplin for a decade, worked in Joplin for half of that. The tornados will blast some areas over and over, and skip some repeatedly. Joplin has had two nasties, IIRC but Carl Junction never had any that I've heard of (It's a suburb north of Joplin). Just like the certain suburb in OKC has had a few, over and over again. I lost a friend in the F5 in Joplin. Lots of the building code now requires either a basement or shelter.
BS. I've lived in Missouri since about '82. I've never seen a tornado, never been through one. Now that I say that.....it'll probably change. Oklahoma, eastern Colorado, and Kansas are far worse. Nebraska and South Dakota not so much that I know of. I hear about more in Kentucky and Georgia in the last few years, honestly.
