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Doug Collins: “Georgia was cotton tobacco. We were transitioning over. And…”

Featuring: Doug Collins, Republican | Secretary of Veterans Affairs | National

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Published | Video Starts at 19:06

You have others that are, that are mixing into a lot of problem policy. But back then, you know, Georgia was cotton tobacco. We were transitioning over. And would you say, Lee. And again, maybe my perception, we were still in the 60s. 70 soybeans hadn't come in, you know, we hadn't really went transition a lot to soybeans. I can still remember going down 75 and, you know, into the 70s, and it was white all the way down there, you know, during cotton picking season. (19:06–19:22)

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Asserts that Georgia's agriculture was transitioning from cotton and tobacco to other crops like soybeans in the 60s and 70s.

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