Economic Development
-What finally forced the South to diversify its economy from an almost exclusively agrarian system?

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The boll weevil infestation of cotton crops in the mid-1910s devastated the South, which not only had an almost exclusively agrarian economy, but one that hinged on cotton. As cotton crops disappeared, the South began to diversity its agricultural industry and eventually its economy altogether. Some Southerners were ultimately so grateful for the event that spurred their belated diversification that residents of Enterprise, Alabama, erected a boll weevil statue as a tribute.

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