Here's some statistics from 1920: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/AgCensusImages/1920/Farm_Statistics_By_Color_and_Tenure.pdf http://usda.mannlib.cornell.e

Here's some statistics from 1920: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/AgCensusImages/1920/Farm_Statistics_By_Color_and_Tenure.pdf http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/AgCensusImages/1920/Far... Over 14% of farmers in 1920 were black, ~950,000 out of ~6,500,000. This year that number is 45,000 out of 3,400,000, which is 1.3%. So there's been a pretty massive demographic shift. And some of the behavior outlined in this article is a pretty good explanation for why.