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Dust Bowl Blues Poem

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On paragraph 11, in “Letter from the Dust Bowl,” Mrs. Caroline A. Henderson writes to a friend that the dust storms have destroyed their barley, buried mulberry hedges that protected their shelters from north west winds, wiped out pastures, and turned their locust grove into fence posts. Despite these conditions, why did Mrs. Caroline A. Henderson and her husband decide to stay, while the rest of their fellow settlers left? The song “I’d Rather Not Be in Relief” opens with these lines:
“We go around all dressed in rags
While the rest of the world goes neat,”
Who/What is the ‘We’ and ‘rest of the world’ referring to in the two lines above? The song “Dust Bowl Blues,” by Woody Gutherie, is about how the dust was so bad that it either buried

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