If Kenny is producing it - - he´ll find a way to make blacks the biggest victims.

No doubt about that.

I read that book, too. It spends a lot of time judging the past by today´s standards. Grew up in SW Kansas, my grandparents worked through that. The ones that stuck with farming and learned better methods were very successful. The descriptions and interviews were interesting. I don´t imagine that I´ll spend any money to see this movie.

The Dust Bowl was a man-made disaster. But what environmental nuts fail to tell you, it was a man-made disaster created by the government. Since the Gilded Age, the government lied to the people to promote settlers on land west of the 100th Meridian. The land was marginal for farming, but the government lied about the bounty of the land to sell homesteads.

Moral of the story...GOVERNMENT DOESN´T ALWAYS KNOW BEST!!!

FTA: Burns sees an irony here. "In a land of flinty individuals — at the present moment, and then, as red a bunch of red states as you can find — they are pleading with the government for help. And the government stepped in and saved this land.

So it appears that the film´s message is as one would expect from Ken Burns. The "Red States" really need the government´s help but don´t know it.

Ken Burns can take his public handouts and stick ´em where the sun don´t shine. He is a large part of the problem. His nut job left wing rants deserve only ridicule and contempt. The man is a jerk.

I really enjoyed The War & had high hopes for the one about national parks but it was too politically correct - everything the white man´s fault etc. Doesn´t sound like this one is any better.

Unless I am mistaken, Burns came out with a personal endorsement of Obama right before the election.
I will say this much, Burns pairs some of the best music with his documentaries. The Civil War and The War were two of my favorites.

Ken Burns does great work, I always watch his stuff.

I trust nothing on PBS.

Moral of the story: The idiots ran off to California. The smart ones stuck it out and their children are now feeding America and the world. BTW - this explains why California is now completely populated by idiots. BTW II - if you profess to be ´conservative´ and still live in California - you are also an idiot.

#10, actually if you´re a conservative and still in CA it probably means you can´t sell your house for enough to cover the mortgage. There are more than a few in that sinking ship.

I´m with #3. And Woodrow Wilson was a huge proponent of leveraging America´s agriculture, same as Bill Clinton wanted every moron to get a big mortgage. The stock market crash and 1930´s depression was really the result of a de-leveraging farming industry, same as the banking crash of 2008 was the result of de-leveraging of residential mortgages.

Seems likely the financial pressures in the agricultural industry contributed to the destruction of the farmland, "Dustbowl".

#1 you beat me to it!

To #10´s point, the term "Okie" is still a term of derision in Mexifornia.