re: Non-Political Mississippi River Question

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Because settlers moving west generally stopped on the east bank first and started their communities there.

They didn’t have bridges back then Hank. It was a bitch to ferry supplies across.

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Rebel, most of the cities in question were founded by the French when it owned both sides, and they did not move east from Appalachia. They moved up and down the river, from the Gulf and from French Canada.

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Odd that the bluffs all seem to be on the Left Bank, but it is what it is.

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It isn’t odd at all Geo-Hank if you understood tectonic plates and fault lines.

Why would you come in here and tell people that actually grew up and live at various points on the river that we use improper vernacular?

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But the Mississippi was a major highway of commerce long before the US expanded that far, back to when the French owned both banks.

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And before the US expanded that far, there were French settlements on the East side. Because that's closer to France. You know. Where they came from.

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Why the frick is this on THIS board, named POLITICAL Talk.

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I made it political when I brought Rising Tide into the discussion. If the bullshite in that book leading up to the great flood, nothing is. Oh, and it's mostly New Orleans politics.

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Why the frick is this on THIS board, named POLITICAL Talk.

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Because the bulk of this forum have some sort of cultural ties to the Mississippi river, and I thought someone would know the answer.

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New Orleans
Baton Rouge
Natchez
Vicksburg
Memphis
etc.

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Typically the east bank is higher ground, besides NOLA

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Why would you come in here and tell people that actually grew up and live at various points on the river that we use improper vernacular?

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You can use whatever terminology you want. I simply explained my usage to a poster who insisted that it was incorrect. It is not.

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You can use whatever terminology you want. I simply explained my usage to a poster who insisted that it was incorrect. It is not.

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Except it was incorrect. You said using relative directions is better than compass directions, but the relative direction is relative based upon a compass direction.

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I thought someone would know the answer.

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And despite been given the very obvious answer multiple times you choose to be a contrarian a-hole per usual.

You claim the French settled Natchez, Vicksburg, and Memphis.

You are as wrong as defending child groomers. But you do that too. Do you ever wonder why most people find you unlikable?

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Seriously. I'm waiting for some kind of gotcha.

ETA: I was beaten by mere seconds with Hank's dumb gotcha.

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Fraud, if you see some sort of "gotcha," you are imagining it.

Again, I think Tittle provided the answer with the bluffs. It is just a coincidence/accident of geography that the bluffs are mostly on the Right Bank.

Here in Texas, what we call the "high bank" of a river switches sides a lot as the river moves through the state, sometimes several times in a few dozen miles. Apparently, the Mississippi doesn't do that.