How widespread was sharecropping in the south in the late 1800s? ?

Sharecropping came to utterly dominate the agriculture of the cotton-planting south. It verified from state to state but was common in many places.

  All southern states had sharecropping in the south on more than half there farms.

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The nickname would be : " robber bandits" i believe