[Red Badger]

I know, but the word, "sharecropper", seems to have evolved to exclude whites..........

[billhilly]

"I know, but the word, "sharecropper", seems to have evolved to exclude whites.........."

Believe me, it didn't. I grew up in that environment, and where I grew up, in the late thirties and forties, most of the sharecroppers were white, and no black was poorer.