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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
Not all farmers were land owners. Aside from the sharecropper system initiated during reconstruction, the post WW I farm depression bankrupted many white farmers and turned them into tenant farmers on what had been their land. By 1935 less than half of the people who earned their living on the land owned the land. The New Deal helped land owning farmers get richer and sealed the fate of tenant farmers. The Grapes of Wrath was more than a novel, much of it was history.
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I pay attention to local real estate and it seems that every 300+ acre farm that comes up for sale has a price tag north of 1 million. No matter how bad of shape the house or buildings on it are.