• Since you just want a grid solution maybe something like this would work?

    ;with StateData as

    (

    select t1.*, ROW_NUMBER() over(partition by t1.STATE order by t1.city) as RowNum

    from #tempCityState t1

    join #tempCityState t2 on t1.STATE = t2.STATE and t1.City <> t2.City

    group by t1.STATE, t1.CITY

    )

    select case RowNum when 1 then STATE else '' end as STATE, City

    from StateData

    order by StateData.State, City

    I still say it would be better in the front end but this does what I think you are after.

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