More people need to understand your reference to Bleeding Kansas. Mostly forgotten history.
I grew up in Kansas City, MO but moved to the deep South many years ago.
Even people in the South have no concept of what transpired on the Missouri and Kansas border.
Good point.
Read a biography of Truman and either his or Bess’s family talked of “how some damned Kansas family was eating off of their china”. Although Missouri stayed in the Union, western Missouri was pretty much considered enemy territory and I believe residents were forced to abandon their farms and move to towns. Of course Missourians weren’t the innocents either, they conducted raids into Kansas before the Civil War. Caused at least two or three generations of resentment between the two states.