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Dang, Japanese farmers in California were like whites in Africa - link
| German pumo | 06/25/26 |
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Date: June 25th, 2026 11:52 PM Author: German pumo From FDR bio:
Economic cupidity also played a significant role. “Originally,” Eleanor wrote, the Japanese immigrants “were much needed on ranches and on large truck and fruit farms but as they came in greater numbers, people began to discover that they were not only convenient workers, they were competitors in the labor field, and the people of California began to be afraid.” Though Japanese-owned farms occupied only 1 percent of the cultivated land in California, they produced nearly 40 percent of the total California crop. |