Looking at American place names, referencing that it originated as a fort, it would appear that fortified places were necessary for early settlers to tame the wilderness. The fact that forts, however, are a communal effort, requiring the assistance of a community to build and man the fort, should temper our attidude towards them as they were decidedly unamerican. In retrospect, the settlers should have left it to private investors to build and finance the forts even if meant having to sacrifice their lives to do so.
In a like manner the American financial section has taken the name of a communal wall built to keep out indigenous people. The only proper way to construct such a wall is to allow private enterprise to build it and then collect fees for access.
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