What is the author trying to emphasize by calling cotton a king in paragraph 8?
a) the "king" idea of cotton celebrates how farms are passed down through different families.
b) the metaphor emphasizes how diverse georgia's natural resources are compared to other states.
c) the "kingliness" of cotton stresses how cotton is an extremely masculine crop for a person to raise.
d) the metaphor demonstrates that cotton is the most important and influential crop produced in the state of georgia.