Kansas City's Most Civilized Man

Page 33: "Fisher agrees. ..that his column is different but thinks it's partly because of our geographical location. He says there aren't many places where a column like his could be written. 'We're surrounded by more variety than anyplace [sic] else in the country,' he says. 'We've got prosperous farms and farms where people can barely eke out a living. We've got the Ozarks with its own culture. We've got the plains of Kansas. We've got resort areas. We've got two big cities in Missouri and some small cities in both Missouri and Kansas, each surrounded by its own flavor. We've got northern influence and southern influence and eastern and western influence. If you tried to write a column like 'The Midlands' out of Des Moines, you'd run into too much sameness. Iowa is primarily a farm state. The Dakotas are ranch states. Colorado is half ranch and half tourist."