Many of the original founders of the Cortez Growers Association first came to California in 1910. The farming cooperative takes it name from the small Santa Fe Railroad stop north of Livingston and southeast of Turlock in my district in Californias great Central Valley. Lured to the Valley by a popular Japaneselanguage newspaper. the immigrants. unable to speak English and ineligible to own land or become U.S. citizens doggedly pursued the American dream. eventually catching it. revolutionizing farming and transforming Merced County into a major agricultural center. Immigrating in search of opportunity. they lived as sharecroppers and laborers while searching for the American dream in Berkeley. Watsonville. Salinas.
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