Dixie
In terms of chicken broilers, chicken eggs, rice, and cotton among other things, the South disproportionately contributes to American agriculture.
Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado account for most of the cattle. Iowa, North Carolina, Minnesota, and Illinois account for most of the hogs. California, Illinois, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Indiana dominate corn.
Truth be told, California is by far the agricultural powerhouse of the United States with 13.20% of total farm receipts, but the conservative parts of Victor Davis Hanson’s Mexifornia are dominated by clueless liberals on the Left Coast.
The conservative parts of America are responsible for virtually all the heavy lifting in agriculture, mining, and the energy sector. Within the Blue States, Chicago isn’t responsible for the corn crop in Illinois and the SWPLs in Boulder aren’t responsible for the cattle in Colorado.
Democracy allows urban parasites to live off the more productive parts of America.
Broilers (Chicken) – Value ($1,000)
Georgia – 2,857,580 – 13.98%
Arkansas – 2,731,300 – 13.36%
Alabama – 2,406,976 – 11.77%
North Carolina – 2,041,785 – 9.99%
Mississippi – 1,930,412 – 9.44%
Texas – 1,424,520 – 6.97%
Kentucky – 690,932 – 3.38%
Virginia – 590,172 – 2.89%
Oklahoma – 547,096 – 2.68%
South Carolina – 521,884 – 2.55%
Tennessee – 439,604 – 2.15%
Florida – 208,440 – 1.02%
West Virginia – 155,848 – 0.76%
Percent of U.S. South Broilers: 90.38%
Chicken Eggs
Georgia – 394,223 – 7.43%
Arkansas – 362,442 – 6.83%
Texas – 325,893 – 6.15%
Alabama – 287,956 – 5.43%
North Carolina – 239,590 – 4.52%
Mississippi – 172,166 – 3.25%
Florida – 159,878 – 3.01%
Missouri – 101,395 – 1.91%
Kentucky – 88,067 – 1.66%
South Carolina – 82,749 – 1.56%
Oklahoma – 74,648 – 1.41%
Virginia – 69,758 – 1.32%
Tennessee – 35,511 – 0.67%
Louisiana – 34,966 – 0.66%
West Virginia – 32,325 – 0.61%
Percent of U.S. South Chicken Eggs: 46.42%
Rice – Value ($1,000)
Arkansas – 808,021 – 46.77%
Louisiana – 243,420 – 14.09%
Mississippi – 130,432 – 7.55%
Texas – 124,197 – 7.19%
Missouri – 92,305 – 5.34%
Percent of U.S. South Rice: 80.94%
Cotton – Value ($1,000)
Texas – 1,546,320 – 28.61%
Mississippi – 526,497 – 9.74%
Georgia – 487,410 – 9.02%
Arkansas – 464,672 – 8.60%
North Carolina – 304,438 – 5.63%
Tennessee – 225,093 – 4.16%
Missouri – 197,986 – 3.6%
Louisiana – 196,766 – 3.64%
Alabama – 193,535 – 3.58%
South Carolina – 88,218 – 1.63%
Oklahoma – 73,921 – 1.37%
Florida – 28,704 – 0.53%
Percent of U.S. South Cotton: 80.11%
“Democracy allows urban parasites to live off the more productive parts of America.”
If by that you mean provide a market for farmers, then yeah. We keep ‘Bev in business!
http://www.savorycities.com/blog/2009/02/bev-eggleston-on-his-outrageously-fine-swine.html
Seriously though the agricultural labor question in the south demands a response other than ‘mechanization’. Maybe revisit the old Pomeranian seasonal labor laws?
Quote of the year: “Democracy allows urban parasites to live off the more productive parts of America.”
We have come a long way in a month. The next phase should be the topic of conversation.
Something that normal people can get involved in with little energy or investment: I like flags and signs. I have recently purchased a Texas state flag, a Texas state flag with Gadsden flag overlay, “come and get it” flag of Texas revolution, to go with my other Gadsen type flags.
Very inexpensive, perhaps even a business opportunity for late teen and twenty something folks, to set up road side flag stands with an explicit appeal to secession.
Folks could fly American flags in distress on any number of triggers, I see poetic justice in doing it when Obama gives his “response” to the petitions (I’m guessing something arrogant).
I like this because it appeals to territorialism and totemism which is deep-wired in the human mind. One could offer a State flag to a business if it would agree to replace a stars and stripes.
For a national flag, I would offer the South Carolina Cross without the palm and crescent. Or a Texas Flag with multiple stripes for each joining state. Though of course that is far in the future.
Chalk on sidewalks is also cheap and effective and anonymous. The mantra? “We would be better off if we seceded.”
The next phase must confirm that this post election phenomena is not going away, and what better way to do that than an invasion of the visible public space!
In a free Dixie, I think most Southerners would agree that maintaining the agrarian ideal would necessitate traditionally pro-white policies such as farming subsidies directed at making life easier for small farmers.
There is much room for other policies such as government that would favor small individual family startups using heavy fees and other resources extracted from agribusiness conglomerates (Cargill, ADM, etc.), which thrive on illegal immigrant labor and have destroyed native white agriculture.
The whole anti-smoking campaign by the federal government was designed to destroy small tobacco farmers in the South and it has largely succeeded. Such government policies and programs are doubly economically wasteful since they destroy commerce at the same time as they squander government money to carry out such policies and programs.
We need to make it easier for more white people to get back to the land. Urban and suburban dwellers ought to be heavily taxed to subsidize small farmers as well. Government policies ought to be directed at the establishment and maintenance of a whiter, more rural polity. End all transfer payments to the urban parasites who are currently draining the government teat dry.
Southerners must regain their political independence from the fleabag yankee BRA empire. Then we can un-engineer the depravity currently wrought by yankee social engineers and other such reformers.
Deo Vindice
The Basques do it,
The Catalans do it
Even Scots in Glasgow do it
Let’s do it
Let’s cut our ties!
Cont….
Farms are the original solar powered factory. The crops are basically a freebee from the Sun. Now all the pedants out there will have a pop at me but it’s essentially true.
cities were useful things when they were centers of production and created useful things that added real value to a man’s life. not so much that way anymore
The most agriculturally-productive county outside of California is actually in Pennsylvania, and several other Pennsylvania counties come close.
Pennsylvania has the largest rural population of any state, and I think North Carolina is next. California with its huge agricultural production is a larger state, but has a mostly urban population.
Cotton was grown here commercially during Lincoln’s War, in the southeastern counties, rice production is possible (but not bananas and oranges!) and there are a lot of large broiler operations in the southeastern counties (production level in those counties nearly equals the state of Tennessee) but sheltering for the cold winter weather reduces efficiency. But look at other major crops, such as wheat and apples, that are better grown in a cooler climate.
That “urban parasites…live off the more productive parts” is the historical pattern, noted in Scripture.
“Woe to those who join house to house, and add field to field, till there be no more place.” “Prepare ye slaughter…that they rise not up, nor possess the earth, nor fill the face of the earth with cities.”
If California was a nation it would be in the top ten world wide for GNP.
California has the most valuable agriculture in America and it is being systematically destroyed by the Ecotopian liberals on the West Coast.
The best farm lands of some eastern states have more human carrying capacity, more potential for sustainable traditional family farming than the best California farm lands.
Misgovernment agricultural policy is for Western corporate mega-farms to feed the population, while eastern farm lands are used for entertainment, “ruralscaping” and niche marketing — and to create subsidised and assisted “farms for women and other socially disadvantaged groups” — and traditional “mid-sized” family farming to become rare or extinct.
Remember the free Tibet bumper stickers?
Need a satire of that but with Dixie and the battleflag theme.
Rays of stars and bars from a rising cotton plant…..or whatever looks similar to the Tibet bumper sticker swpl types used yo put on their cars
Free Beau and Luke!
Hunter – These economic/resource breakdowns are good stuff.
Have you seen an analysis of the form of federal dollars leaving/coming into states? Something that would address the now widespread talking point about red/conservative states being ‘takers’ and blue/liberal states being ‘makers’.
What sort of people/enterprises do the federal dollars come from, what/who do federal dollars go to, in a given state?
“Democracy allows urban parasites to live off the more productive parts of America.”
And you grow exactly how much of your own food Hunter? Approximately 2% of the American population is involved in farming and ranching. Another 22 million work in processing (eg. canneries and food factories) along with distribution by rail, trucking, and shipping agricultural products overseas. These activities are organized and run in the urban centers.
Stop reasoning as if it were still 1860. As an active member of the intelligentsia you yourself are one of those urban “parasites.”
Farming gets into an even more important issue that should be the subject of a post here: water resources.