🇾 🇪 🇿 🇿 🇪 🇾If a Great Depression happened again, would people still stand together like they did during the penny auctions?
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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Wasn’t the Great Depression a worldwide thing?
Not really, the great depression in capital letters was almost 100% in the US.
The rest of the world had a recession, a bit tougher than normal but nothing near what happen in the US
Part of that was linked to a great drought on US farms caused by overfarming leading to the dust bowl. That was a major part of the US GDP then. And 100 years later people still don’t believe humans can alter the environment.
DNSThe US at the time deported Latino citizens due to the increases racism/bigotry. Most of them were farmhands who knew how to work the land, better than the white farmers. The US realized their mistake in the middle of the depression and attempted to woo the same people back under the Vaquero program. The promise of citizenship was never fulfilled by the US.
The drought began 5 years after the market shit itself to death. The farms began struggling after the war.