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Originally posted by gaijindabe
I dont get it. If I was not able to drink I would not think of nicotine as a replacement. Farmers created a demand just by planting tobbaco seeds?
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Sometimes I think the obvious is, well, obvious. When the farmers who had been supplying grapes to the wineries could no longer do so because the market evaporated they turned to another crop, tobacco. The wine grape market was very large at the turn of the century in North Carolina and Virginia, much larger than it was in California at the time.
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Paul Garrett, born in Edgecombe County in 1863, became North Carolina's most famous and prosperous wine maker. In 1865 his father, Francis Marion Garrett, and wealthy uncle, Charles Garrett, purchased the Medoc Vineyard located in Halifax County. At age 21, Paul Garrett became salesman for the winery, when it sold due to his uncle's death. In 1900 at age 37, Paul Garrett struck out on his own following sales commission disputes with the new owners and established his own winery at Littleton. By 1903 Paul Garrett & Company had 5 wineries in North Carolina with the largest at Aberdeen. During the next 16 years Paul Garrett built a nationwide wine empire. He did it by outbidding other wineries for Scuppernong grapes, buying everything he could find. He blended the juice with New York and California wines, but kept the Scuppernong flavor predominant. Paul developed a new label "Virginia Dare" and began promoting American wines for Americans. Virginia Dare white and red became known to everyone and was the leading selling wine in the nation. It won the grand prize in the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition in 1904. According to the sixth federal census, North Carolina was the leading wine producing state in the United States.http://www.ncwine.org/consumer/history_winery.html
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Besides, I thought Nascar that great Southern sport was an outgrowth of the moon-shining hot-rodders of that era? You would rather have some bad wine but no Nascar? Pat you better be quiet on this subject. Your hillbilly neighbors are heating up the tar and breaking open the pillows...
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I am a southerner, you have no idea about this subject. I'm educating you, but you must be interested in learning.