Facts About The American Heartland
Not a terribly imaginative title, but …
For the benefit of readers from outside North America—and maybe for some closer to home—here are a few facts and links to explore that will deepen an understanding of what Big Serge had in mind when he retweeted this map:
Suggestive as this map is, it doesn’t tell the whole story.
The Mississipi River system actually connects to the Great Lakes system via the Illinois River and a canal—meaning, the Gulf of Mexico is connected to the Great Lakes and through the St. Lawrence Seaway to the North Atlantic and all the major cities and the industrial (“The Rustbelt”) and agricultural heartland along the way. The Great Lakes themselves are a wonder of the world—”the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by total area and are second-largest by total volume, containing 21% of the world's surface fresh water by volume.”
Here’s a map that gives a better idea of the importance of the full scope of navigable inland waterways in the US, and how they connect the heartland to seaports and the world:
Finally, to give some idea of what all this means, here’s a link to the Soo Locks:
The Soo Locks, despite being closed during the winter months of January through March, are the busiest locks in the world by tonnage.
This only scratches the surface as far as America’s resources are concerned. But the natural logistics serve in a way as a multiplying factor for those resources.
Was just browsing for boots & utterly confounded by all the "American" & "Canadian" shoe companies that brag about their long running histories, yet every pair of their boot wear is made in Asia?
My life began when Americans made real things - everything that built, furnished & helped run our households; fed clothed & supplied the people of the USA. Why can't we go back to that? Why is it never considered? All I can guess is no one in the power structure wants to admit what a hellish failure their globalist technocracy & fiat financing have been? Afraid to do real work? If we can't have Trump, how about Mike Rowe? 😆
Why will Nando not explain? Strange, I don't see any East or West Coast cities, or even Washington, DC on his clip. Could it be that large parts of America, the heartland, exists as a territory in its own right, and has only tenuous ties to our so-called power centers? "The true source of United States power." Has Washington permanently alienated residents of the areas depicted, could it be that having lost our trust Washington is like "a poor player that struts and frets his day upon the stage," and of a truth real power has never departed the hand of the good people of this Country? Just say no, or don't even bother saying it. Ignore Washington. Give them minimum compliance. Just say no in your hearts, and live the good life.