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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I’m sure there’s good reasons involving Cultural identity and policy disagreement that they wouldn’t want to become a state, but it really seems like it would be a huge win financially.

It would be Missouri yet again holding the bag. They’d no longer be able to plead poverty for more federal funding.