@BillRM,
Bullshit. And even if that were true so what???
But here's the facts for you:
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/20/us/farm-population-lowest-since-1850-s.html
The report said the 1920 census is regarded as the beginning of the Government's official count of the farm population, although estimates go back much further. But earlier figures dealt with workers, not total population.
In one table, for example, figures on the number of Americans in ''farm occupations'' go back to 1820, when they were reported at less than 2.1 million, or about 72 percent of the American work force of 2.9 million.
By 1850, farm people made up 4.9 million, or about 64 percent, of the nation's 7.7 million workers.
The farm population in 1920, when the official Census data began, was nearly 32 million, or
30.2 percent of the population of 105.7 million, the report said.
(you know - 30 - 70 not 50 - 50)
According to Agriculture Department estimates going back to 1910, however, the farm population peaked in 1916 at 32.5 million, or 32 percent of the population of 101.6 million.
What you don't know about just about everything would fill an education.