Economic Issue Quotes



The South then had the poorest education in the country and recovery from the Great Depression was made easier by a workforce that was educated enough to handle many of the new jobs and new techniques of doing the old jobs. And that was where the South lagged. The small farms which were the mainstay of the Southern economy were by then far less important as agriculture was undergoing major changes, technological and ecoomic, with many small farmers leaving the farms for the factories if they could.