Mizzoumatt, I think you put it well there. The defining traits of Missourians that I always think of are cynicism, an extremely wry humor and bluntness. Usually it serves us well. During this saga at times it has probably been taken the wrong way on the interwebs and TV and such.

I grew up in CoMo and it always felt pretty damn PC as far as the locals which is why so much of these claims have really been shocking to me.

But I gotta say, when I go to STL to see my extended fam there, plenty of times on holidays I will hear a "whoa! Did he actually just say that" sorta thing on lots of topics and sometimes race is one of those. I know to their core none of them are racist, but there is a certain bluntness to the discourse that would always scrape my PC trained ears. But if nothing else, what you see and hear tends to be what you get with MO people.

I think this new letter better embodies that bluntness and moves us toward dealing with CS1950 in more the way the average person in our state would. Almost all of them will tell you to your face that racism is bad, but most all of em will also call you a goddam idiot or much worse to your face if you read off a list of demands like these.

This post was edited on 2/26/16 at 6:46 pm