So, what you have are small, poor, weak units, and that's a miserable situation.

我们所看到的是微小的,贫穷的,虚弱的小单元,这是一种悲惨的境地

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Two-thirds of the white South remained in those classes we've come to call the yeoman farmers, the poor whites, or the sand hill farmers, as they were sometimes called.

三分之二的白人家庭属于这个阶级,我们称他们是约曼农民,贫穷的白人,或者没有地的农民

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