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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tulsamal" data-source="post: 2098103" data-attributes="member: 571">Closer to home... look at Missouri politics. Most of the state is trees and decent mid-sized cities like Joplin, Springfield, Jefferson City, and St. Joseph. Lots of rural folks. But the laws that get passed in Missouri sometimes can really leave Okies feeling baffled. Until you consider that their politics are all about St. Louis and Kansas City. Those metro areas are where the power is and they drag the rest of the state kicking and screaming behind them.I suppose it isn't surprising. Once a metro area achieves a certain level of population density, things start to fall apart. Throw in a bunch of public housing and concentrate those in a few areas, and you have some serious societal problems. Laws get passed with those problem areas in mind. But unfortunately, those laws end up affecting everybody in the state. Laws designed to help with serious gang problems in public housing areas in the St. Louis metro area end up getting applied to people in Jefferson City. Big problem.</blockquote>