they would thorw the crops away to the garbage instead of giving it to the poor okies
Okies
The nickname for plains farmers is okies.
The farmers would throw away the extra crops instead of giving it to someone that needs it like the poor okies in that time they did not have anything to eat and the children had to starve some people even tried to kill them selfs or they would starve to death not because they wanted to because they had to they did not have jobs to get dough ( also knowen as money) for there family to by food in that time iot was really hard for them and they starved so pliz learn to help the community and what ever you dont need pliz give to the people that do need it pliz.
The farmers would throw away the extra crops instead of giving it to someone that needs it like the poor okies in that time they did not have anything to eat and the children had to starve some people even tried to kill them selfs or they would starve to death not because they wanted to because they had to they did not have jobs to get dough ( also knowen as money) for there family to by food in that time iot was really hard for them and they starved so pliz learn to help the community and what ever you dont need pliz give to the people that do need it pliz.
The farmers would throw away the extra crops instead of giving it to someone that needs it like the poor okies in that time they did not have anything to eat and the children had to starve some people even tried to kill them selfs or they would starve to death not because they wanted to because they had to they did not have jobs to get dough ( also knowen as money) for there family to by food in that time iot was really hard for them and they starved so pliz learn to help the community and what ever you dont need pliz give to the people that do need it pliz.
Farmers who moved west to find work.
Okies is the nickname for people from Oklahoma. Arkies is the nickname for people from Arkansas. The Okies and Arkies were farmers who moved to California during the Great Depression.
The "Okies and Arkies" were migrant farmers moving from Oklahoma (Okie), Arkansas (Arkie), and Texas to California during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
Oklahoma Dust Bowl farmers who migrated to California to find work.
Migrant farm workers who left the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression to seek work elsewhere were known as Okies, a term generally used to represent people from Oklahoma. During the Great Depression, the term was used to refer to people from neighboring states of Oklahoma in an offensive way. The farmers and their families traveled to California, where they were hired as migrant workers for 20 to 25-cents per hour to pick crops.
The Okies and it didn't matter if you were born and raised in Kansas.
Severe drought ruined crops in the Great Plains and created this term to describe the region during the 1930s because it was named after the dust that constantly flew around and smothered everything. As the horrid conditions continued coupled with poor farming practices, 350,000 farmers whose crops had been ruined migrated to California. These ex-farmers became known as Okies.