re: Non-Political Mississippi River Question

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A fair number of them were objectively wrong, which is to be expected when asking almost any question

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So you already knew the answers

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No, Dalton, I did not KNOW the answer. But I DO know enough history to recognize an "answer" that was pulled from someone's arse. Claiming "US settlement patterns" as the reason for the location of a city founded a century before American expansion into that area? Clearly an answer pulled from a rectum.

Clearly, the "bluffs" is the answer. My knowledge of Civil War history confirms that Vicksburg is on the bluffs, but I DID NOT know that about Baton Rouge or Memphis or Natchez.

As such, the thread was useful to me, despite the combative behavior of a handful of posters.