Alex Richards
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Nah that's dumb the Missouri river is the transport route and vital water source, you'll have far more commerce and relationships with the guys on the opposite banks than a hundred miles up or down stream. Plus it means 'West Dakota' has a much much smaller population than East Dakota and a much bigger proportion of Indian lands, neither things congress will be particularly keen to engender.
Nah that's dumb the Missouri river is the transport route and vital water source, you'll have far more commerce and relationships with the guys on the opposite banks than a hundred miles up or down stream. Plus it means 'West Dakota' has a much much smaller population than East Dakota and a much bigger proportion of Indian lands, neither things congress will be particularly keen to engender.
Iowa and Nebraska are on opposite banks of a river. As are Kentucky and Ohio.