To: Harmless Teddy Bear; Jamestown1630; Red Badger
True.
Cotton
Corn
Sugarcane
Tobacco
Rice
Indigo
Turpentine
and many others.
But “cotton” somehow became a “trigger word”.
39 posted on
12/23/2024 1:17:08 PM PST by
Repeal The 17th
(Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
To: Repeal The 17th
Probably because it became connected to the wealth of the South; and was referenced often in that context - the ‘Cotton Economy’, ‘The Land of Cotton’, etc.
40 posted on
12/23/2024 1:25:40 PM PST by
Jamestown1630
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