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It's a reference to civil war era america. Elaborate user-generated-content metaphor?

The post Civil War South, actually. Sharecropping wasn't really a thing in the North, and before and during the Civil War, there wasn't very much sharecropping because slavery was more cost-effective.

ding ding ding. This man gets ALL the dollars.

chime, sharecropping in terms of software development is a topic that Tim Bray has an interesting take on:

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePla...

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ubun...