People always pick on Missouri, but whenever I've been there, I've always found the locals to be kind and welcoming. It really is true, Missouri loves company.
Meanwhile it's the only place I've seen someone stick their head out of a car window and yell at a black person walking down the street to, and I will use their exact phrase as I remember it even 12 years later:
"Go back to monkey Island you stupid dirty niiiiiiiiiig...." And he was silenced by the car driving away before he could finish, but it should be obvious