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Jan 15, 2010 · OKIE MIGRATIONS. Southwesterners had been moving west in significant numbers since 1910. However, not until the 1930s did this migration, particularly to California, become widely noticed and associated with Oklahomans. During the Great Depression decade Oklahoma suffered a net loss through migration (outflow minus inflow) of 440,000.
Sep 30, 2020 · Multi-ethnic American families have often been disparagingly, disgracefully, and inaccurately described as “white trash”. Some of these same people later appear on history’s stage as “Okies”.
Okies: a term for those who migrated from the American Southwest (primarily from Oklahoma) to California. Used with disparaging intent, the term was perceived as insulting, implying the worker was ignorant, poor, and uneducated. Okie Migration: the mass exodus of primarily farming families during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression era.
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Apr 7, 2015 · Haggard sang “Okie from Muskogee,” the title song from the same-named album released in 1969. The hit song restated redneck values in the face of college campus disturbances. But his state pride campaign was an accidental one — he wrote the song as a joke after he overheard a comment one of his band members made while traveling through ...
Jun 3, 2024 · With extended kin communities in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, North Georgia, Arkansas, Southern Missouri, and Oklahoma, these people regularly dispersed into Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and elsewhere to supply bodies and numbers for the back-breaking labour of crop-picking.
OKIE. In the early twentieth century people from Oklahoma were occasionally nicknamed "Okies," a special appellation that seemed a natural shortening of the state's name. With the publication of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath in 1939, however, "Okie" took on negative connotations.
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Okie. An Okie is a person identified with the state of Oklahoma, or their descendants. This connection may be residential, historical or cultural. For most Okies, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Oklahoman.
