[DManA]

I don’t minimize the pain and expense of abandoning those sites but I agree, when you look at the plain facts it seems like a no brainer. Especially Cairo. According to Wiki the population is only 2,831. Come on.

[muawiyah]

There are lots of other folks in the lower Delta living out around all over the place. They'll tell you blowing up levees in Missouri helps just Cairo, but it also protects the entire agricultural area in the Illinois part of the Delta.

One more time, the Delta is the main fancy bean growing area in the world. Mexico has a contract on about 90% of the bean crop there. This is their meat.

By protecting the Delta Bean Crop we keep 35 million Mexicans in Mexico and I think that is an excellent idea, don't you?!

[ErnBatavia]

Cairo is two-thirds black. End of case.