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Enoch_Mosley 30 points ago +30 / -0

We should have picked our own cotton

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RonJoner 6 points ago +6 / -0

perhaps

but we didn't. So what to do?

Expatriate? Our country loves immigrants, but what about promoting emigration for unhappy people?

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WhoMeTwo 1 point ago +1 / -0

This has been tried... ==> Liberia

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Belleoffreedom 1 point ago +1 / -0

Some of us did.

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CoffeeIsForClosers 1 point ago +2 / -1

Blame Eli Whitney. His cotton gin made these people antiquated farm equipment.