Help ASAP While folks flocking to the cities told new tales, it was the
same old story out in the rural parts of the state. There
the roaring" sounded more like a barn mouse than a
Buick. Where dairy farmers near Hickory were doing
well, five out of every six farmers in Scotland County
were still sharecroppers. Across the state, 137,000
country families did not own the land they labored on
each summer. Hardly any owned a car. Quite a few had
problems feeding their mules, let alone their children.
For some North Carolinians during the 1920s, their best
effort went wanting. A pest killed the strawberry plants
near Wilmington. The boll weevil greatly damaged the
cotton crop in the 1920s until farmers learned to poison
it. Some farmers in the Sandhills tried very hard after the
war to grow peaches, but folks in Georgia grew them
better and took most of the money. Prices of farm
products went steadily down throughout the decade.
What was the main difference between rural and urban
areas in North Carolina in the 1920s?
O People in rural areas faced more financial
difficulties than people in urban areas.
O Business was booming for farmers in rural areas,
while urban workers struggled.
* More car owners lived in rural areas than in urban
areas because cars were a necessity
Changing technology was widely accessible in both
urban and rural areas, but it was used in different
ways