state and local politics i do not think that this sentence kansas was also at the center of brown v board of education of topeka a supreme court decision that banned racially segregated schools throughout the u s belongs in a paragraph describing how progressive kansas was that sentence which is an important fact negates what is being claimed in that paragraph it belongs in a paragraph dealing with how un progressive kansas is preceding unsigned comment added by kansas city msa the kansas city msa is not a part of the state of kansas while some suburbs do spill into the state of kansas kansas citians pride themselves as being culturally independent from the state of kansas percent of the msa is located in missouri the airport is in mo the tall buildings downtown is in mo the sports stadiums are in mo and overall the entire metro is anchored in missouri it is the second largest msa in missouri and is not part of kansas really at all this needs to be deleted preceding unsigned comment added by the above comment was made by me i forgot to log in kansas city is anchored in missouri actually wichita has a larger msa in the state of kansas than kansas city would even if you counted the numbers joco adds about thousand and the dotte is about thousand according to the article on wichita there are in their metro therefore wichita is larger in terms of metro strictly in ks even though kansas city's msa is four times larger kansas city is a missouri metro not a kansas one