For those who don’t know St. Louis City ≠ St. Louis County. A long time back the then-prosperous City seceded from the then-hick County.
Recently the City has tried to rejoin the County to get to all the sweet tax money in the County. The County wants nothing to do with the idea.
Liberal policies drove people out of the city. Rather than fix the problem, they just want to take what the county has, under the motto of “Better Together.”