2010年1月15日 · "Okie" has been historically defined as "a migrant agricultural worker; esp: such a worker from Oklahoma" (Webster's Third New International Dictionary). The term became …

2010年1月15日 · Although Oklahomans left for other states, they made the greatest impact on California and Arizona, where the term "Okie" denoted any poverty-stricken migrant from the …

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 …

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 …

2023年8月3日 · Okies were cast as a health threat that would overrun and infest the state their poverty, poor health, and backward thought. Their southern drawls and simple values drew …

2022年9月21日 · Authorities harassed the newcomers out of city limits, forcing thousands of families to crowd in enclaves and take low-paying jobs. And when even that couldn’t drive …

"Okies," as Californians labeled them, were refugee farm families from the Southern Plains who migrated to California in the 1930s to escape the ruin of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.

Okies were a term used to describe impoverished farmers, primarily from Oklahoma, who migrated to California and other states during the Great Depression in search of better living …

1992年10月18日 · What became of those 350,000 Dust Bowl victims of the 1930s, the Okies, who piled in their overburdened flivvers and streamed west to California, the rejected refuse of the …

Prominent Okies include Woody Guthrie and Merle Haggard, and John Steinbeck wrote about them in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, 'The Grapes of Wrath.' 'Okie' refers to a person with …