Today, I wanted to compare my hometown, Staunton IL, to St. Louis MO. I have hypothesized that they will have a historical tie to one another since Staunton is withing the greater STL area and I will be looking for those ties with the Voyant tools provided.

During this brief research I compared news paper websites of both Staunton and St. Louis respectively.

Above is a representation of the data I was presented with while comparing the two. I think that the website main words consisting of Staunton and Louis fails to confirm my hypothesis, and it may be a lack of historical data being presented in newspapers. Still, this does not discredit the regional influence that St. Louis has over the whole metropolitan area.

Sites Used:

https://www.stauntonstartimes.com

https://www.stltoday.com/go./?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=18338231165&gbraid=0AAAAACF126c4jOvWE52nHVeZzoa_dRIcF&gclid=Cj0KCQiA8KTNBhD_ARIsAOvp6DLT0vMHVpIahGfvH75e7HohGTyMwdgGsmBMufPOcHRqJfdET6yR_D0aAgcHEALw_wcB

https://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=6068ce7b3bfffd53b835604a3d3ea6e4