(I don’t actually have any opinions about Missouri)

  • MagicPterodactyl@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    I’d never heard of this particular Springfield so I looked it up. According to Wikipedia St. Louis is the 22nd largest city by population in the US and Kansas City is 34th. Neither are huge but I think major city applies. Springfield on the other hand ranks 143rd. I’m not even sure most people would consider it a city.

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      2 months ago

      To clarify, that’s by metro district. St Louis is 76th by the population inside its city boarders. It’s about 100k more than Springfield, MO.

      Suburban sprawl sucks.

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      2 months ago

      Woah woah woah. Springfield is definitely a city. It says so right in the logo:

      A screenshot of the home page of the website springfieldmo.gov (the official website for Springfield Missouri) showing only the top-left corner of the page (pretty much just the logo and the address bar of the browser showing the url). Just beside the logo it says "City Of Springfield".

      (Real talk, folks. I don’t care if anyone considers Springfield a “major city” or even a “city” at all. It’s just funny to think of an anthropomorphic caricature of Springfield, Missouri crying over a perceived slight to its ego.)