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Louisiana prepares to move Pecan Acres after 50 years of floods


The American South
When residents began moving into Pecan Acres 50 years ago, they had no idea they’d one day call their neighborhood Flood City. 
Most were low-income Black farming families from the other side of the Mississippi River forced to look for a new home after the decline of sharecropping. In Pecan Acres, a two-street collection of 40 houses in central Louisiana’s Pointe Coupee Parish, a local farm equipment supplier named Alton “Billy” Ducote was selling the only lots many could afford. 
Demetra Stafford was 6 years old when her parents moved into their corner house on Pecan Drive East in 1971, but she can still remember the excitement.  ....

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