Granted, some may have moved due to the actions of a very few, but from what I saw it was because lack of jobs. Vietnam was yet to come and there was a recession at that time. I remember the blacks in the cotton fields like it was yesterday. Has anyone here actually picked cotton before? Let me tell you, it was back-breaking. You drug a long sack all day through mud a lot of the time, the cotton boll would rip your fingers to shreads if you didn't tape them. From sun up to sun down all day. Next day, same thing all over.
The combines did away with all that but they leave so much in the fields that is just wasted. When we picked by hand there was nothing left when we got through. Now the deer come out afterwards to eat the cotton the combines miss for the seeds inside. Ever try to spot a whitetail in a cotton patch? Talk about effective camo.
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