As someone with no horse in this race, but having once lived in SW Kansas for 9 years, the official ranking of SW Kansas cities.
1) Garden City - it is still a massive turd. But they spackled it well and it looks sort of spiffy, for a turd.
2) Liberal - A regular turd, unspackled, seething, fresh and nasty.
3) Dodge City - A Mangino-sized mega turd. Disease ridden, pulsating, buzzing with flies, and overwhelming the senses. It is like the borg, and some will consume/co-opt all.
Hays - no thoughts. Visited many times, but not close enough by. Probably somewhere between Liberal and Garden City.
Thought I'd clear that up for everyone.