The effects of the droughts in the early 1900s and the 1915 boll weevil infestation on Georgia made it clear that

a
the state had become too focused on industrialization.
b
the state needed to diversify its economy.
c
the state's agricultural sector was the strongest in the country.
d
deregulation had placed the state's economy in peril.

B) the state needed to diversify its economy.