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" ... And that is indeed what this is all about, the Jones Act. As above, this says that cargo between US ports can only be carried by US ships, US crewed and US built (from US steel as well if I recall correctly). Not hugely dissimilar from the Navigation Acts which Adam Smith used to approve of and which so enraged the American colonials of the time. The intention is indeed to try to preserve some portion of the US merchant marine fleet. ... "
" ... Most homes, after all--colonials, capes, ranches and splits, follow the same boxy patterns. Developers “have to appeal to the common denominator,” Leavitt says, leaving only those with deep pockets to tailor their own palaces. ... "