Question: Why is the state containing the birth city of James Cuno known as the show me state?

full_context: Document 1: Art Institute of Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879 and located in Chicago's Grant Park, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, the museum hosts approximately 1.5 million guests annually. Its collection, stewarded by 11 curatorial departments, is encyclopedic, and includes iconic works such as Georges Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Pablo Picasso's The Old Guitarist, Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, and Grant Wood's American Gothic. Its permanent collection of nearly 300,000 works of art is augmented by more than 30 special exhibitions mounted yearly that illuminate aspects of the collection and present cutting - edge curatorial and scientific research.
Document 2: Harry S. Truman: Harry S. Truman 33rd President of the United States In office April 12, 1945 -- January 20, 1953 Vice President None (1945 -- 1949) Alben W. Barkley (1949 -- 1953) Preceded by Franklin D. Roosevelt Succeeded by Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th Vice President of the United States In office January 20, 1945 -- April 12, 1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt Preceded by Henry A. Wallace Succeeded by Alben W. Barkley United States Senator from Missouri In office January 3, 1935 -- January 17, 1945 Preceded by Roscoe C. Patterson Succeeded by Frank P. Briggs Presiding Judge of Jackson County, Missouri In office January 1, 1927 -- January 1, 1935 Preceded by Elihu W. Hayes Succeeded by Eugene I. Purcell Judge of Jackson County, Missouri's Eastern District In office January 1, 1923 -- January 1, 1925 Preceded by James E. Gilday Succeeded by Henry Rummel Personal details (1884 - 05 - 08) May 8, 1884 Lamar, Missouri, U.S. December 26, 1972 (1972 - 12 - 26) (aged 88) Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. Resting place Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum Independence, Missouri, U.S. Political party Democratic Spouse (s) Bess Wallace (m. 1919) Children Margaret Truman Parents John Anderson Truman Martha Ellen Young Education Spalding's Commercial College UMKC School of Law (withdrew) Signature Military service Allegiance United States Service / branch United States Army Missouri National Guard United States Army Reserve Years of service 1905 -- 1911 (Missouri National Guard) 1917 -- 1919 (United States Army) 1920 -- 1953 (Reserve) Rank First Lieutenant (National Guard) Major (Army) Colonel (Reserve) Commands Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, 60th Brigade, 35th Infantry Division 1st Battalion, 379th Field Artillery Regiment, 102nd Infantry Division 379th Field Artillery Regiment, 102nd Infantry Division Battles / wars World War I Western Front
Document 3: St. Charles, Missouri: St. Charles is a city in, and the county seat of, St. Charles County, Missouri, United States. The population was 65,794 at the 2010 census, making St. Charles the ninth - largest city in Missouri. It lies to the northwest, and is a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri on the Missouri River.
Document 4: Branson, Missouri: Branson has long been a popular destination for vacationers from Missouri and around the country. The collection of entertainment theaters along 76 Country Boulevard (and to a lesser extent along Shepherd of the Hills Expressway), including Dolly Parton's Stampede, has increased Branson's popularity as a tourist destination.
Document 5: Washington University in St. Louis: The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, established in 1881, is one of the oldest teaching museums in the country. The collection includes works from 19th, 20th, and 21st century American and European artists, including George Caleb Bingham, Thomas Cole, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, Jackson Pollock, Rembrandt, Robert Rauschenberg, Barbara Kruger, and Christian Boltanski. Also in the complex is the 3,000 sq ft (300 m2) Newman Money Museum. In October 2006, the Kemper Art Museum moved from its previous location, Steinberg Hall, into a new facility designed by former faculty member Fumihiko Maki. Interestingly, the new Kemper Art Museum is located directly across from Steinberg Hall, which was Maki's very first commission in 1959.
Document 6: St. Louis: St. Louis (/ seɪnt ˈluːɪs /) is an independent city and major U.S. port in the state of Missouri, built along the western bank of the Mississippi River, on the border with Illinois. The city had an estimated 2016 population of 311,404, and is the cultural and economic center of the Greater St. Louis area (home to 2,916,447 people), making it the largest metropolitan area in Missouri and the 19th - largest in the United States.
Document 7: Peter Trippi: Before arriving at the Dahesh Museum, Trippi held positions at the Brooklyn Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Association of Art Museum Directors (where he wrote a history of that organization from 1916 to 1991), Cooper-Hewitt Museum, National Arts Education Research Center at New York University, and American Arts Alliance in Washington, D.C. He holds an MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London; an MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University; and a BA in History and Art History from the College of William and Mary, Virginia. His 250-page biography of the British painter J. W. Waterhouse R.A. (1849–1917) was published by Phaidon Press (London) in 2002, and has sold more than 50,000 copies. He contributed two chapters to the catalogue accompanying the exhibition "A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum" (1997, organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art and published by Abrams). In 2002, Trippi co-founded, with Professor Petra ten-Doesschate Chu (Seton Hall University) and Professor Gabriel P. Weisberg (University of Minnesota), the peer-reviewed journal "Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide", and he has served on the boards of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art, Historians of British Art, and American Friends of Attingham. In 2011 he completed a three-year term as chair of the Courtauld Institute of Art's U.S. Alumni program, and became president of Historians of British Art. In 2013 he became past president of HBA and became president of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art.
Document 8: East St. Louis, Illinois: East St. Louis, Illinois City East St. Louis Location of East St. Louis in St. Clair County, Illinois. Location of Illinois in the United States Coordinates: 38 ° 37 ′ N 90 ° 8 ′ W ﻿ / ﻿ 38.617 ° N 90.133 ° W ﻿ / 38.617; - 90.133 Coordinates: 38 ° 37 ′ N 90 ° 8 ′ W ﻿ / ﻿ 38.617 ° N 90.133 ° W ﻿ / 38.617; - 90.133 Country United States State Illinois County St. Clair Township East St. Louis (coterminous) Founded June 6, 1820 Incorporated February 16, 1865 Government Type Council - Manager Mayor Emeka Jackson - Hicks Area Total 14.28 sq mi (36.99 km) Land 13.90 sq mi (36.01 km) Water 0.38 sq mi (0.98 km) Population (2010) Total 27,006 Estimate (2016) 26,922 Density 1,936.42 / sq mi (747.64 / km) Time zone CST (UTC − 6) Summer (DST) CDT (UTC − 5) Area code (s) 618 FIPS code 17 - 163 - 22268 Website www.cesl.us
Document 9: James Cuno: James Bash Cuno (born April 4, 1951 in St Louis) is an American art historian and curator, who currently serves as President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust since 2011.
Document 10: James E. Faulconer: James E. Faulconer is an American philosopher, a former Richard L. Evans Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University, the former director of BYU's London Centre, and presently a Resident Senior Research Fellow and the Associate Director of the Wheatley Institution. He previously served as the dean of Undergraduate Education and the chair of the Philosophy Department at BYU.
Document 11: Geography of Missouri: Missouri river from its mouth at St. Louis to Columbia. This also corresponds to the southernmost extent of glaciation during the Pre-Illinoian Stage which destroyed the remnant plateau to the north but left the ancient landforms to the south unaltered. The Ozark boundary runs southwestward from there towards Joplin at the southeast corner of Kansas. The boundary between the Ozark and lowland regions runs southwest from Cape Girardeau on the Mississippi River to the Arkansas border just southwest of Poplar Bluff. Missouri borders eight other US States, more than any other state except Tennessee, which also borders eight states.
Document 12: Mississippi: Mississippi ( (listen)) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. Mississippi is the 32nd largest and 34th-most populous of the 50 United States. Mississippi is bordered to north by Tennessee, to the east by Alabama, to the south by the Gulf of Mexico, to the southwest by Louisiana, and to the northwest by Arkansas.  Mississippi's western boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River.  Jackson is both the state's capital and largest city.  Greater Jackson, with an estimated population of 580,166 in 2018, is the most populous metropolitan area in Mississippi and the 95th-most populous in the United States.
Document 13: Harry S. Truman Bridge: The Harry S Truman Bridge is a vertical lift rail drawbridge over the Missouri River connecting Jackson County, Missouri with Clay County, Missouri in Kansas City, Missouri. It has a 427 foot main span, and is the tenth longest span in the United States.
Document 14: Missouri: Missouri is landlocked and borders eight different states as does its neighbor, Tennessee. No state in the U.S. touches more than eight. Missouri is bounded by Iowa on the north; by Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee across the Mississippi River on the east; on the south by Arkansas; and by Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska (the last across the Missouri River) on the west. Whereas the northern and southern boundaries are straight lines, the Missouri Bootheel protrudes southerly into Arkansas. The two largest rivers are the Mississippi (which defines the eastern boundary of the state) and the Missouri River (which flows from west to east through the state) essentially connecting the two largest metros of Kansas City and St. Louis.
Document 15: Missouri: Well - known Missourians include U.S. President Harry S. Truman, Mark Twain, Walt Disney, Chuck Berry and Nelly. Some of the largest companies based in the state include Cerner, Express Scripts, Monsanto, Emerson Electric, Edward Jones, H&R Block, Wells Fargo Advisors and O'Reilly Auto Parts. Missouri has been called the ``Mother of the West ''and the`` Cave State''; however, Missouri's most famous nickname is the ``Show Me State '', as Missourians are known for being skeptical.
ground_truth: Missourians are known for being skeptical.
sub_queries: James Cuno >> place of birth Answer: St Louis
where is St Louis located on the map Answer: Missouri
Missouri is known as the show me state Answer: Missourians are known for being skeptical.