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UMMM!! Kansas city was here before there were states and it was split when that happened,,,so yes it is one city divided by two states with separate governments in those states,,we are only that way due to a government pencil,,,Kansas City overlaps both states. My mother was born in Kansas City, KS.
So Trump was still correct. But he should be impeached for being accurate.
Wrong. Kansas City MO is separately incorporated (meaning it's a separate city), from Kansas City KS. No, it's not a single city that overlaps both states.
Wrong. They are two separately incorporated towns.
Why is there a Kansas City in both Kansas and Missouri? | KC History
A group of 14 investors, including McCoy, formed the Town Company in 1838 to buy up property along the riverfront. This area included Westport Landing and in 1850 was incorporated as the Town of Kansas. City founders derived the name from the Kansas, or Kaw, River which was named for the Kansa Indians. The state of Missouri then incorporated the area as the City of Kansas in 1853 and renamed it Kansas City in 1889. John McCoy’s settlement, the old town of Westport, was annexed by Kansas City, Missouri, on December 2, 1897.
During this time, other settlements were developing across the river on the Kansas side in Wyandotte County. Some of these small towns incorporated as Kansas City, Kansas in 1872. By naming this town after the growing city on the Missouri side of the state line, city leaders in Kansas were able to capitalize on the success of Kansas City, Missouri. It’s also possible that the people in Wyandotte County felt that they had more right to the name “Kansas City” than the people of Missouri had.
Today Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri remain two separately incorporated cities but together, along with a number of other cities and suburbs, are part of the Kansas City Metropolitan area.
of course thats true in the legal definition,,,
Wouldn't "the legal definition" PREVENT two different city governments from running a single city?
the debate is over a football team not government,,,