or it was. The location of "By the Shores of Silver Lake" is no longer a lake.
Also http://www.kansastravel.org/littlehouseontheprairie.htm
Minnesota is not all that and a bag of lakes.
About Kansas, I have lived here for ten years and four months. Previously I had live in Wisconsin for ten years, Iowa for three years, Minnesota for five years of college, Nebraska for two years of college, Utah for a year and twenty some years in South Dakota.
Kansas is not flat in the Eastern part. It is hilly and wooded, much like Wisconsin. Because of Kansas City, it seems far more urban than SD or Iowa or even Wisconsin. I find the weather here to be awesome, with long, dry summers and mostly mild winters with little snow for very long.
Politically, of course, it is a disaster, known and berated for being deep, deep crimson. However, for 8 of the ten years I have been here, we had Governors who are Democrats, and my state legislators and state senators have been Democrats and my Congresswoman for two years. In Wisconsin, it seemed like Tommy Thompson was Governor the whole time I was there, and I had two Republican Congresspeople - Gunderson and Klug as well as Republican legislator and State Senator.
In Kansas, it seems like most of the elected Democrats are DINOs, practically moderate Republicans, but I feel the same way about Senator Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, one of the richest men in the Senate and about William and Hillary Clinton, so Kansas's political problems are hardly unique to Kansas. I have Brownback for Governor, but in Wisconsin I'd have Walker and in Iowa, the herpes virus of Branstad. Again, Kansas is not alone in having awful Governors.
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