Allen-Smith, Joyce E.; Wimberley, Ronald C.; Morris, … - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 32 (2000) 02
This study focuses on the longstanding impoverishment of the rural South and three of its subregions-Appalachia, the … Mississippi Delta, and the Black Belt. The poor quality of life in rural Appalachia and along the Mississippi Delta has been … the South as a whole is more rural and impoverished than other U.S. regions, this is largely due to the poor conditions in …