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rice doesn't grow outside of sub tropical climates.
wheat does
Neither did humans, for quite a long time.
Incidentally... Emerging evidence of cultural differences linked to rice versus wheat agriculture
A great deal of speculation about how the cultivation of wheat (which can be done with animal labor to supplant human labor) versus rice (which needs large groups of closely knit groups to grow and harvest successfully) impacted the sociological patterns of the associated human societies.
Nah, Californian's grow rice. You got me curious so I looked, and surprisingly, Arkansas grows loads of it! I could get it going in NW Florida, and it gets down to 19F every winter.
But you're right in that wheat is far tougher in the cold.
That is modern day rice after thousands of years of cultivation and selective breeding.