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Due to farm foreclosures, plant closings, and conglomerization, 17 percent of rural Americans--10 million people--have drifted into homelessness, facing hunger and despair. Davidson's hard-hitting and moving account reveals this erosion of a proud, traditional way of life and shows its impact on the economics and psychology of America.
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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 10 percent, the number of farmers decreased by two-thirds, and nearly every farming community lost population, businesses, and economic stability. Growth for these desperate communities has come to mean low-paying part-time 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 far-right-wing groups; his chapter on these burgeoning rural organizations in the original edition of Broken Heartland was the first in-depth look - six years before the Oklahoma City bombing - at 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.
About the Author
Osha Gray Davidson is a journalist and author of four other books, including"The Enchanted Braid: Coming to Terms with Nature on the Coral Reef" and "Under Fire: The NRA and the Battle for Gun Control".
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