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Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal (Paperback)
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Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal (Paperback)
Series: Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life
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Cotton supplied the Native Americans with clothing fibers before
the Spanish ever entered Texas. It drew Southern settlers fleeing
U.S. antislavery trends during the Mexican Republic in the 1820s.
By the early 1930s, cotton was produced in 223 of the 254 counties
in Texas and was a central element in the Texas economy. The Great
Depression created a major disruption that threatened to
destabilize the entire Lone Star State. In this book, Keith J.
Volanto relates the story of the New Deal's efforts to aid Texas
cotton farmers, specifically with the production-control policies
introduced by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA). He
explores the reasons the AAA cotton programs in Texas were
instituted, the implementation problems the AAA encountered and how
they were resolved, and the results of the programs. He draws
conclusions concerning how well Texans benefited from the AAA
cotton programs and about those who were actually harmed by them.
In addition, he also examines the role of Texas politicians and
bureaucrats in formulating the policies in Washington and the
importance of Texas to New Deal cotton policy broadly. Volanto's
study of the AAA cotton programs in Texas is a study not only of
agriculture policy but also of the New Deal itself. The AAA
provides an example of how the New Deal attempted to solve a
natural problem in a largely experimental fashion. The experience
of the AAA the political, economic, and legal constraints it faced
provides new insight into the (Back Flap) nature of New Deal
commodity programs. It also demonstrates how the New Deal's typical
broker state priorities tended to address the concerns of organized
groups, often to the detriment of unaffiliated individuals. From
the initial farm subsidy programs and their impact on Texas during
the 1930s to the AAA's cotton programs that were implemented at the
state level, very little has previously been written on this
important period in Texas history. Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal
fills this void.
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