10-27-2020, 12:27 PM
(10-27-2020, 12:24 PM)fredtoast Wrote: They are not hard working. This area used to be supported by growing tobacco. That is very labor intensive. It has mostly been phased out now but when people were still growing it they were unable to find local help to hire for the field work. Despite this being one of the poorest most poverty stricken areas in the country people would not work. The local farmers had to depend on Mexican migrant workers to harvest the tobacco. And it was not because they Mexicans did it for peanuts. The growers paid them well. They just could not find locals willing to do the work at any price.
So, you're using a small subset of an entire region to make a generalization about the people of the region as a whole. If only there was a word for that...
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
