[Keith Seymore]

Because picking cotton by hand is hot and dirty work.

My parents were part of a long line of poor farmers in the bootheel of Southeast Missouri. In the mid 1950's, as family members began trickling north looking for good jobs in the auto factories, mom and dad followed suit.

I am grateful for my middle-class upbringing but I often wonder why they didn't move to St. Louis or Kansas City (their are GM plants in those cities) instead of all the way up here to Flint Michigan.

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