Word: corn
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...three decades, they flocked to the cities from the land of cotton, the Great Plains, the corn belt and Appalachia. It was greater even than the great Western trek of the late 19th century. In 1940, 30.5 million Americans lived on farms. Only 10.5 million remain. Now the city-bound flow has slowed to a trickle. According to new data compiled by the Agriculture Department, the farm labor force (age 14 or older) has remained static during the past two years...
...villages is frequent and routine. Each paraje has its own political structure, and the political system in the municipio draws on all the parajes. The Zinacantecos have an agricultural economy, but their cornfields are in Tierra Caliente ("hot country") at a lower altitude. Wealth is measured in corn, and it is a staple food as well as the most marketable product in San Cristobal...
...others (Madero, Villa, Carranza) on the one issue of land may have several causes. For one, being from the north where vast expanses of land are used primarily for grazing, the others missed the importance men could attach to a tiny place to raise a few stalks of corn. Or they were city liberals who were uncomfortably aware of the larger socialistic implications of the land policy which these Morelos dirtfarmers were advocating...
Black history has made people aware that white people did not give America such things as the stoplight, the shoe last, heart operations and sugar refining but that black people did this. That John Smith did not develop corn and tobacco but learned to grow these crops from the Indians. And the beat goes...