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About the District
The Mississippi Delta, the flat, mushy, river-crossed lowland on both sides of the great river, was some of the country's first industrial farmland. This land was uncultivated in the 19th Century, when plows were still pulled by mules and muddy flatlands were impassable. Then, a century ago, big landowners used machines to drain the marshlands and persuaded poor blacks to move here to tend fields of cotton, rice, and later, soybeans. The results were bountiful agriculture and impoverished people. Around 1940, the Delta began to change slowly: the first minimum wage and war industry jobs up north drew young people out of the Delta and mechanization forced many off the farms. But this land--stretching flat as far as the eye can see, past rows of telephone poles and ribbons of asphalt that shimmer in the heat--remains poor by national standards and the people are undereducated and underemployed. The 1st Congressional District includes most of the Arkansas's Delta lands and stretches west to the cool green Ozarks. The People:
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Parks, Hunting, Fishing, GolfThe First Congressional District includes some of the finest natural resources in the nation. Stuttgart, Arkansas calls itself the "Duck Capital of the World," and duck hunting season attracts sportsmen and women from all over.
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