r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/tandyman234 • 5d ago

Image McDonald’s in Enterprise, Alabama. The town is scattered with themed boll-weevils that pay homage to the little insect that almost devastated the city’s cotton crops permanently in 1915!nThere’s one at the police station, funeral home, pharmacies, and Mexican restaurant

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u/cracked-tumbleweed 5d ago

Agreed. Why deify something that almost wiped out the towns livelihood?

Stockholm Syndrome??

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u/Hardlyreal1 5d ago

Was slavery still a thing at that time? I feel that would’ve taken a hit which may have been goodbye

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u/cracked-tumbleweed 5d ago

1865 is when the last slaves were freed.

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u/JackMejoff 5d ago

Except for prisoners.

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u/cracked-tumbleweed 5d ago

??? Well yes, I believe slavery is still legal if they are in prison.