Unfortunately, Owsley is still in copyright. If you want the full version of his thesis, check out his Plain Folk of the Old South, which was originally given as a Walter L. Fleming Lecture series at LSU. shorturl.at/tQeHd
@@georgebagby9058 thank you. I have a couple old very technical and old amalgams of the history of my local very small town as my family is of these people. If you'd like to look it over I may send it your way.
3:20 - this sounds eerily familiar to the mythos that farming and produce jobs can't be filled by natural citizens because of a disdain for this kind of manual labor, and as such migrant labor must be imported to fill these kinds of positions. Sounds alot like a rich man's game to debase the working ethic of regular people and supplant the natural labor force for cheaper alternatives.
Bingo. They have to continually import people who have nothing so they can pay them next to nothing. 2nd and 3rd generation Mexican Americans won’t work for nothing either. They get their diplomas and degrees and move on. Cesar Chavez spoke about this phenomenon. Now there is a special class of agricultural immigration cards that allow people to come here legally but only temporarily. It de facto makes them slaves to their sponsoring overseer farm and even more so if they overstay the card.
