the US was an exporter with relatively little subsistence production, at least not out by the dust bowl. so the plains crop failures weren't not feeding americans so much as whoever was buying it---and with price collapses crops might not've been exported anyway. one could maybe relate it to international famines but that gets really tricky talking about logistics, purchasing power and foreign aid
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