Carter was very unpopular and blamed for the poor economy
Illegial drug handeling and food stamp fraud
They thought they would die on the way & they did not want to take their risk
Fictional story, While Shuruppak's fatherly wisdom is one of the most ancient examples of written literature, history's oldest known fictional story is probably the “Epic of Gilgamesh,” a mythic poem that first appeared as early as the third millennium B.C.