Don’t mess with Kansas

As you may have heard (then again, why would you have?), people in Kansas are mighty upset about their state’s new slogan, “Kansas. As big as you think.” These aggravated red staters say, first off, that people don’t think of Kansas as big. People think of Texas as big. Plus, the slogan is not unlike Texas’s official motto: “Texas. It’s more than you think.” You get the sense that Kansans wouldn’t mind an ordinary sucky motto—they just don’t want a sucky motto that makes them look like Texans.