re: #61 Barefoot Grin

My grandfather was a professor in the ag department in the state university where I was born—after he managed University of Michigan farms in the 19-teens and then University of Illinois farms. His wife, my grandmother, like him was born on a farm and her sister and her husband farmed in western Illinois. All of their 5 sons helped. Three of them farmed. In my generation, several farmed for many years, but ultimately couldn’t acquire enough land to make it profitable, so they went into insurance or teaching, etc. Big agriculture made it nearly impossible to continue the family farm in one of the most fertile and productive places on earth. That’s why they vote republican. The old “New Deal” farmer was long, long gone.

They vote Republican because Democrats decided that blacks should have a chance as well.