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     History Brief: Okies During the Great Depression

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   Check out our Great Depression workbook: http://www.amazon.com/Great-Depression-Dirty-Thirties/dp/1500862584/In this video, the plight and flight of the Okie...

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3. beforewewerewhite.com › 2020/09/30 › the-origin-of-okiesThe Origin of “Okies” - Before We Were White

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   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”.

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5. www.latimes.com › okies-oklahoma-california-slurColumn: 'Okie' was a California slur for white people. Why it ...

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   Sep 21, 2022 · Okies--They Sank Roots and Changed the Heart of California. Oct. 18, 1992. Californians turned the term — long used as shorthand for an Oklahoma native — into an insult. My family members and...

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   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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   Thank You - The Okee Dokee Brothers. From our 2020 Grammy nominated album, Songs for Singin', available now! Streaming, digital and physical links here: https://ffm.to/songsforsingin.

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   Why is Oklahoma called Okie?

   • In the 1930s California newspaper reporter Ben Reddick wrote a series of articles on the movement of farm laborers into California and observed that many came in cars with tags from Oklahoma. Reddick seized the Oklahoma nickname and began to apply it to all migrants. Indeed, the term "Okie" took on the same negativity as a racial or ethnic slur.

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   What was the Okie campaign?

   • Launched on May 6, 1968, the twenty-eighth anniversary of the award of the Pulitzer Prize to Steinbeck for The Grapes of Wrath, the OKIE campaign consisted of honorary titles, pins, and contests, all devised to instill pride in the Sooner State. Bartlett noted that OKIE was the acronym for "Oklahoma, Key to Intelligence and Enterprise."

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   What does Okie mean in the grapes of Wrath?

   • With the publication of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath in 1939, however, "Okie" took on negative connotations. Steinbeck recounted the story of the Joad family who lost their Oklahoma farm and sought a new life in California.

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   Is 'Okie' still a word in the New York Times?

   • The New York Times used “Okie” as a crossword puzzle answer (to the clue “Resident of the 46th state”) just last week. On the other hand, the term has slowly disappeared from this newspaper. Blake Hennon, a Times copy desk manager, told me that the dictionary used by our copy editors describes it as “often a disparaging term.”

   Column: 'Okie' was a California slur for white people. Why it still

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   Is 'Okie' still offensive?

   • Karen Hamstrom claimed “Okie” was “extremely offensive language” that was beneath me. “While the Depression-era generation that endured those taunts may be mostly gone, those words are still used with scorn and derision to imply filth, stupidity, and a shallow gene pool,” she wrote.

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   Why was California hostile to the Okies?

   • Additionally, the established population of California was hostile towards the migrants due to differences in regional culture. They viewed the Okies as culturally and socially inferior, backward and uneducated – a view echoed in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath. The term “Okie” originally had the derogatory connotation of “poor, white trash.”

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   Tens of thousands of displaced and destitute people, dubbed Dust Bowl refugees by the press, journeyed west to California in search of farm labor jobs, in an event nicknamed the Okie Migration. These migrants came from a broad swath of southern plains states including Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas.