re: Did Huey P Long block Alexandria from being a major metro?

Natchez just got cut out by all the major road systems. You have to want to go to Natchez. Natchez died with the cotton plantations. It’s still a nice town though. I think I have stayed at every plantation there at least once as I had to go there for work for weeks at a time years ago.

Vicksburg did get destroyed by major civil war battle siege as shown by the national battlefield park there but not really sure why it didn’t do better. It’s on 1-20 but really doesn’t have any industrial base at all. Both used to have some tire plants, paper mills m, etc but most all of those shut down years ago. Casino gambling was actually passed in Mississippi to help those cities economically and the gulf coast was an afterthought to get the thing passed. It obviously helped the Biloxi area the most but not sure that it did that much for Vicksburg.