So while people are starving resources won't be redirected?
Go ahead, don’t believe me, but I guarantee you there have been studies on how small a hiccup it would take for people in these cities to begin killing each other for food. It’s every bit as real a danger as a hit to the electric grid.
I agree that city people are constantly in danger. But you said you could defeat the north by blocking trucking. There's a lot more to the north than urban dwellers. We grow plenty of our own food to defeat you again.
Ignore it at your own peril. Because they would venture out and start looking for food anywhere, and taking it by any means.
You think gang-bangers can go up against deer hunters? No they can't. How far did they get into the country after Katrina? Not even over the bridge. Remember?
You are making my argument.
What’s FedGov gonna do while those cities are burning? Including DC.
The rural folks, Deer Hunters etc hate FedGov as much as we do. Do you see them actually helping them recover?
I mentioned the Civil War because another poster brought it up first, but CWII will not be between North and South.
Regardless, choking those cities would be the key to winning.
I still say though the North doesn’t grow enough to support it’s whole population.
It’s nobody’s fault, no one is saying they’re lazy, or anything else, it has more to do with population dispersal, and seasonal issues.
Ask anyone in Transportation, the NE US is a giant black hole. We send thousands of loads in, and you can’t get a load of anything out of there.
The rest of the US, not so much. I’ve seen a driver haul a load of food (generic) to a city, go two streets over pick up the same type of food and deliver back to the part of the country he just came from. I’ve seen stuff like that countless times. I have also read and studied transportation patterns (logistics) in this country, and they support my hypothesis, at least they did as of 2004.
Il, IN, OH, and MI are Midwestern states, and don’t fit the hypothesis. The only reason I included them was for geographical reasons. The choke points would actually isolate those four states all but preventing them from helping the NE at all.Also because Chicago, and Detroit are two cities that would also need to be cut off to force FedGov to their knees.
I think you are taking what I said as an attack on Northern US citizens, and I’m not.
The point I was trying to make with the other poster was if that war from 1861 was fought today, it would end very differently. In 1861 the NE US had the greatest concentration of wealth and goods. The South was barely able to feed itself.
Not so today.