What was life like in the 1930s in Southern USA?

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What was life like in the 1930s in Southern USA?

I am doing summer reading homework on To Kill a Mockingbird. I need to know what life was like in the South during the 1930s. Please help. Thank you.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Life was hard. It was depression and dust bowl in the South and those who _did_
manage to hang on had to hang on hard. Many people lost everything they had, land, crops, houses. There was little cash
money around, most people lived by what they could raise, gardens, chickens, prices were high for store bought goods. Women baked--on wood stoves--they canned vegetables at home. washed clothes by hand, did their own sewing, making most of the clothes their families wore.
The middle class suffered because jobs gave out, factories closed, there were few service jobs such as store clerks, or waitresses. Many middle class were forced to relocate and become part of the labor class which was making it's way to migrant camps in California.

The professional class, doctors, lawyers, engineers certainly downsized, their incomes frequently were cut considerably. Some chose to relocate, others just hunkered down and rode out the hard times.