... south refused at first to accept government help, optimistically believing that better days were ahead. Some moved out of the plains, running from not only drought but from the new machine-controlled agriculture. As John Steinbeck wrote in the bestseller The Grapes of Wrath, "it was not nature that broke the people-they could handle the drought. It was business farming, seeking a better ... the changes that were needed to save the southern plains. Other groups outside of the government tried to help the plains with their own plan of attack. Local women's groups were organized in places ...

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