Cotton Belt
(sometimes lowercase) the part of the southern U.S. where cotton is grown, originally Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi, but now often extended to include parts of Texas and California.
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How to use Cotton Belt in a sentence
The Africans were sold in the Cotton Belt, their existence virtually creating two distinct political parties.
As A Chinaman Saw Us | AnonymousIn every part of the Cotton Belt the looting of cotton went on.
Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama | Walter L. FlemingAlthough agriculture here is much more diversified than in the Cotton Belt, the Negro finds it necessary to get advances.
The Negro Farmer | Carl KelseyOats are probably the surest and best paying small grain crop that can be grown over practically the entire Cotton Belt.
How to Prosper in Boll Weevil Territory | G. H. AlfordPork can be produced in the Cotton Belt more easily than any other live stock.
How to Prosper in Boll Weevil Territory | G. H. Alford
British Dictionary definitions for cotton belt
a belt of land in the southeastern US that specializes in the production of cotton
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