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Subject: [Leica] Daily Dose of Spring XXV Daffodils with Plum petals
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Fri Mar 10 06:58:08 2006
References: <9b.723d198d.3142ec78@aol.com>

Did they Even have cotton there?  All this time I though Louisianan  
just had crawdads, gators and pretty women.

Walt

p.s B.D.'s beard is white. :-)

SonC@aol.com wrote:

> 
> 
>In a message dated 3/10/2006 8:37:12 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
>bdcolen@comcast.net writes:
>
>And  true, 'back in the day' the vast majority of cotton pickers were  
>neither
>free, nor white, though many were under 21.  ;-)
>
>
>This depends ENTIRELY on where and when.  In Union Parish,  Louisiana your 
>"truism" never was true.  In Natchitoches Parish,  it is partly true.  Not 
>too 
>sure about El Paso, but I'd speculate it  depends on your definition of 
>white.
> 
>
>Regards,  
>Sonny
>http://www.sonc.com
>Natchitoches, Louisiana
>Oldest continuous  settlement in La Louisiane
>?galit?, libert?,  crawfish
>
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