Au contraire. I have never complained about Spfld drivers. After having lived in five different regions of the country and driven half a million miles of road trips, I actually think Springfield drivers are mostly fine.

The worst are drivers from the Pacific Northwest—5-10mph under the speed limit, in the left lane while not passing anyone, and slam on the brakes for the tiniest hint of drizzle.

Second are slow older pickup trucks in the rural South who are in no hurry to go anywhere.

Third are Florida retirees who shouldn’t be operating cars anymore (either barreling along way too fast for their reaction times and making sudden panic corrections or holding up traffic and driving entirely too slow).

Fourth are Branson tourists from flat states who panic at the hills and curves in the Ozarks and who insist on taking the Strip at 15mph to take in all the sights.

Springfielders (and Missourians at large) are middle of the pack, if not even slightly higher—they (mostly) keep right except to pass, mostly drive at a reasonable speed (5-10 over the limit), mostly use turn signals, etc. They’re mostly predictable. (I have no problem with fast or aggressive drivers, as long as they’re predictable. It’s the unpredictable ones that are dangerous.