Meaning

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  1. Official nickname for Missouri: a state of the United States.

Origin

Uncertain, but often attributed to Missouri's U.S. Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver, wh

Uncertain, but often attributed to Missouri's U.S. Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver, who in a speech in Philadelphia in 1899 declared, "I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me."

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