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Poor farmers that migrated to California looking for new opportunities were often called

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These Dust Bowl refugees were called “Okies.”

Okies faced discrimination, menial labor and pitiable wages upon reaching California. Many of them lived in shantytowns and tents along irrigation ditches. “Okie” soon became a term of disdain used to refer to any poor Dust Bowl migrant, regardless of their state of origin.

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The Dust Bowl 'Okie' migration

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the 1930's brought in over a million newly displaced people, many headed to the farm labor jobs advertised in Central Valley California.

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