Communism aswell as anti-communism, socialism and liberalism, feminism and sexism,racism and antiracism, pacifism and militarism, are examples of wide-spread ideologies â which may be more or less positive or negative de-pending on our point of view or group membership.
Tobacco was the American colonies' chief export. The Jamestown colonists had not found gold, nor a route to the South Seas, nor the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island. But they had found tobacco. Tobacco had brought the settlement from wretched failure to giddying success.
â North Carolina ranks sixth in the production of burley tobacco, growing about 3 percent of the U.S. total. â Gross income from tobacco production in North Carolina was. about $1.1 billion in 1997. â The gross value of tobacco averages around $3,750 per acre and. can reach nearly $7,000 per acre. â Typical production costs for flue-cured tobacco in 1997 were about $2,660 per acre.