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The group adopted the name of the boll weevil, a pest destructive to cotton crops, because of the difficulty of eradicating the weevil and the pest's range in the Southern United States. [ 2 ] Nonetheless, a bloc of conservative Democrats, mostly Southerners, remained in the United States Congress throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
The boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) is a species of beetle in the family Curculionidae.The boll weevil feeds on cotton buds and flowers. Thought to be native to Central Mexico, [1] it migrated into the United States from Mexico in the late 19th century and had infested all U.S. cotton-growing areas by the 1920s, devastating the industry and the people working in the American South.
In the 1980s, the term gypsy moth Republican described Republicans from the Northeast and Midwest who voted against the Ronald Reagan administration's proposed cuts in aid to economically distressed people, contrasting with boll weevil Democrats, who voted for these cuts.
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In the early years of the caucus, the Blue Dogs were viewed by some as the political successors to Southern Democratic groups such as the Boll Weevils or conservative coalition. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] The Boll Weevils may, in turn, be considered the descendants of the Dixiecrats and the " states' rights " Democrats of the 1940s through the 1960s, and ...
The Boll Weevil Eradication Program is a program sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) which has sought to eradicate the boll weevil in the cotton-growing areas of the United States. It's one of the world's most successful implementations of integrated pest management.
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Both pests were introduced to the United States from Mexico; the boll weevil in the 1890s and the pink bollworm in 1917. [28] The United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) initiated the Boll Weevil Eradication Program in 1978 to combat the boll weevil. The program was expanded to several states ...