Broken Heartland: The Rise Of America'S Rural Ghetto,New

Broken Heartland: The Rise Of America'S Rural Ghetto,New

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Between 1940 and the mid 1980s, farm production expenses in America's Heartland tripled, capital purchases quadrupled, interest payments jumped tenfold, profits fell by 10 percent, the number of farmers decreased by twothirds, and nearly every farming community lost population, businesses, and economic stability. Growth for these desperate communities has come to mean lowpaying parttime jobs, expensive tax concessions, waste dumps, and industrial hog farming, all of which come with environmental and psychological price tags. In Broken Heartland, Osha Gray Davidson chronicles the decline of the Heartland and its transformation into a bitterly divided and isolated regional ghetto. Through interviews with more than two hundred farmers, social workers, government officials, and scholars, he puts a human face on the farm crisis of the 1980s.In this expanded edition Davidson emphasizes the tenacious power of farrightwing groups; his chapter on these burgeoning rural organizations in the original edition of Broken Heartland was the first indepth looksix years before of the Oklahoma City bombingat the politics of hate they nurture. He also spotlights NAFTA, hog lots, sustainable agriculture, and the other battles and changes over the past six years in rural America.

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