COTTON BELT


Meaning of COTTON BELT in English

Agricultural region of the southeastern U.S. where cotton is the main cash crop.

Once confined to the pre–Civil War South, the Cotton Belt was pushed west after the war. Today it extends primarily through North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, western Tennessee, eastern Arkansas, Louisiana, eastern Texas, and southern Oklahoma.

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