Yet another factor was the poverty diets so many Southerners subsisted on, and how they affected lives individually and the region as a whole. Poverty diets resulted in nutritional deficiency diseases, such as pellagra, caused by diets of cornbread and fatback. Other factors of poverty on the lives of post-war Southerners include the "lazy Southerner" -- a comical stereotype outsiders

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