Which region was most affected by the Dust Bowl of the 1930s?

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Which region was most affected by the Dust Bowl of the 1930s?

The Dust Bowl hit the central Great Plains the hardest. A severe drought from about 1930 to 1936, paired with deep plowing and over-farming of fragile grasslands, left topsoil exposed and vulnerable to wind erosion. When winds blew, enormous dust storms swept across farms and towns, devastating crops and livelihoods across the region that includes parts of Oklahoma, the Texas panhandle, Kansas, eastern Colorado, and New Mexico. Other regions such as the Northeast, Pacific Northwest, and Southeast did not experience the same scale of soil loss and dust storms, so the impact was far less severe there.

The Dust Bowl hit the central Great Plains the hardest. A severe drought from about 1930 to 1936, paired with deep plowing and over-farming of fragile grasslands, left topsoil exposed and vulnerable to wind erosion. When winds blew, enormous dust storms swept across farms and towns, devastating crops and livelihoods across the region that includes parts of Oklahoma, the Texas panhandle, Kansas, eastern Colorado, and New Mexico. Other regions such as the Northeast, Pacific Northwest, and Southeast did not experience the same scale of soil loss and dust storms, so the impact was far less severe there.

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