“Louisiana has one of the largest ports in America and controls the entrance to the Mississippi”
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You think LA can shut down the Mississippi, a la Iran threatening to close the Straits of Hormuz???
Not by itself. If there is a civil war the state’s will choose sides.
“You think LA can shut down the Mississippi, a la Iran threatening to close the Straits of Hormuz???”
Like I posted earlier, “When you consider that Louisiana has one of the largest ports in America and controls the entrance to the Mississippi it is a BFD in a civil war.”
It’s shallow thinking like that that leaves a lot of Freepers to think that California and the West Coast is not strategically important to the US and that they’re willing to let them secede from the union.
Andrew Jackson closed it down in the War of 1812. It would be easier today. Drop one of several bridges and a few barges. Open the spillway and lower the level several feet...
Jackson did it with a single fort and some cannon emplacements. Today, missiles and artillery set in among all the industrial installations lining both sides. They would be hard to spot.