Can you accept St. Paul for Minneapolis? It is the same metro area and if you are accepting Durham for Raleigh, you should do the same for Minneapolis-St. Paul.
QM, I believe you've made a mistake. Kansas City is in Missouri - a flyover state, a red state, a state full of hillbillies and rednecks - surely it can't be a correct answer on the list of most-educated cities. (BTW, it also happens to be the city where our son received his law degree.)
The Washington DC suburbs are full of educated people and that's actually what I guessed first, but that doesn't stop the rest of the state of Virginia from being full of hillbillies and rednecks. :)
I appreciate that you're just being cheeky, but Kansas City (like most major cities) is a fairly progressive place and just elected a really progressive mayor.