Cotton Belt, Map, States, & Facts
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Cotton Belt, agricultural region of the southern 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 from southeastern Virginia to central and southern California and includes North and South Carolina
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Cotton Belt, Map, States, & Facts
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Cotton Belt, Map, States, & Facts
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Cotton Belt, Map, States, & Facts
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Cotton Belt, Map, States, & Facts
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Cotton Belt, Map, States, & Facts
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Cotton Belt, Map, States, & Facts
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Cotton Belt, Map, States, & Facts
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