Word: bollweevil
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...Maine. Either State would gladly cede him to the other. He outraged his New England neighbors by announcing that "the [Maine] population is dying out from the top as well as from the bottom." His annual visits to his homeland affect civic-proud Georgians as the coming of the bollweevil. Regularly he infuriates them by writing of terrorized Negroes, of poverty, ignorance, depravity, degeneracy among the poor whites. Latest indignity was his series of articles for the loudly liberal New York Post on the misery of starving sharecroppers near Augusta. In savage detail he described family after family-hungry, diseased...
...Cotton crop in 1921: 7,954,000 bales. That year the bollweevil did its greatest damage...
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