g the farmers. (33-34).
             Joy Hakim agreed with Stewart: "In the 1920s, the Southwestern farmers never prospered with the rest of the nation. Their crop prices stayed low, so their income was also low. The price of wheat and other grains dropped so low that it was usually well below what it cost to grow it." (80). In 1929 most farms still didn't have electricity or indoor plumbing due to lack of money. "Farmers protested the low prices by dumping and destroying their own crops, which instead of going to wast
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