During the South's agricultural decline, some southerners thought cotton could become a cash crop because
a) long staple cotton grew well in most of the South
b) factories such as textile mills were more numerous in the South than in the North
c) cotton growing required less labor than tobacco and wheat
d) the expanding British and U.S. textile industries relied on cotton to make their cloth

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