[quote=@Nerevarine]
If possible I'd like to claim territory around the Mississippi River between Missouri and Illinois, playing a feudal kingdom of agriculturalists descended from a mass migration of African-Americans out of the Michigan and Chicago areas towards the River for its value as a source of water and fertile land.   
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Alright, go a head. 
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