Forrest City sits in the flatlands. Where not only cotton but rice and soybeans are commonly grown.
The heavyweight champion boxer Sonny Liston was from a slough a few miles from Forrest City. He was so poor that he never had his picture made until his first police mug shot taken in St. Louis.
It is a great if the economy can lift up some of the poorer folks there now.
Free Traitors™ have been telling me for years that textile work IS NEVER COMING BACK. Although $400 million is chump change for sure.....