[okie01]

Plus, if my grandmother is any example, Texans have an instinctual distrust of Californians since they somehow resent the Okies who picked up and moved to California during the Great Depression. I don’t quite understand how or why this is exactly.

At the time, Okies was a catchall term for everybody what was displaced by the Great Depression and the associated drought conditions in the Southwest. Everywhere except in Oklahoma, that is -- where I understand we used the term Arkies...

By definition, an Okie was poor, uneducated and without any redeeming social virtue -- the epitome of "poor white trash".

Never mind that, ten years later, Okies owned most of the businesses in the Central Valley of California...

[itsahoot]

Hey Okie if you see Arkie
Tell him I got a job for him
Out in California
Diggen oil wells
All he needs is a shovel.
.........