A phrase for a poverty-stricken rural community is derived from this title of an Erskine Caldwell novel
Words near tobacco road in the dictionary
... [DOC] [TLE] tobacco road - Memidex dictionary/thesaurus [PAR] "tobacco road" definitions: a squalid poverty-stricken rural area or community | A 
poverty-stricken rural community.a shabby ... Tobacco Road, novel (1932) by 
Erskine Caldwell and play (1933) by Jack Kirkland.