Reply #45: (sigh) And where, exactly, would this new city be? [View All]

[KamaAina]

We've been going through this for two solid years now. New Orleans is between the Mississippi on one side and Lake Pontchartrain on the other. Assuming this "new city" needs to be on the Mississippi with its huge port facilities, there's just not that much room upstream; the areas away from the river in, say, St. James Parish are every bit as swampy as those "back of town" in N.O.

This debate has been going on since the very beginning. The French wanted Bienville to found his city at the first point upstream where there was more than a sliver of dry land. This place is named after an Indian tribe whose name means "red stick" -- Baton Rouge.