What's become of former tobacco-growing land?

[DINGO Joe]

There are two predominant areas of tobacco growing.  One in Eastern NC and Northcentral NC and adjacent parts of VA that tended to be larger operations and either still grow tobacco or have converted to other crops or livestock or if around Raleigh-Durham into housing.  The other areas is in the Central Appalachia mountains into Central KY that had small farms that probably haven't converted to much of anything if they don't grow tobacco anymore.

Since they're rural areas in the South, they vote R and some places were always ancestral R up in the mountains with East NC being the home of the Jessiecrats (Jesse Helms)  Many of the cities that were centers of cigarette production and corporate HQ are now quite D voting such as Richmond, Louisville and Winston-Salem.