Talk:Hattiesburg (1983: Doomsday)

For Hattiesburg's territory to extend down to the coast, it will have to extend over 60 miles south while only 30 miles in the other directions. This is approximately a territory of 60 miles by 90 miles, or 5400 square miles (encompassing the boundaries of ten counties. Extending to the gulf effectively doubles the territory, but I can see it as necessary to eventually make contact with the expeditions.  If Hattiesburg "controls" this much territory, she must have absorbed quite a few refugees from lower Louisianna and the Florida panhandle.  But is it the only settlement with those counties?  Of the county seats, Laurel rivals Hattiesburg and would not have been abandoned.  It is within thirty miles of Hattiesburg.

I know that Hattiesburg is the established big city of Mississippi. However, if it has consolidated this much territory into its "city" government, it has its work cut out for it. Perhaps this city-state needs to establish itself as "capital city" of a state with other municipalities.SouthWriter 05:26, February 18, 2010 (UTC)