Okies were Americans who were uprooted during the Dustbowl of the 1930s when drought hit the Midwestern states and Canada - people literally lost everything they owned and had to become migrant farm laborers to survive.
Okie food is "good plain country cooking" which was also inexpensive - foods like cornbread, beans, and biscuits with gravy. See the Related Link below for a good article about these foods.
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Why is the term okie dokie smokie offensive to African Americans? It is not offensive, it just means okay or yes but in rhyme because it is just a way of saying ok but funny, you know???
That could only be an estimate since the US Census is take every ten years. The 1930 US Census was 5,677,251 and the 1940 Census was 6,907,387 and a large part of this population shift was as a result of the Okie Immigration as a result of the Dust Bowl. The Okie Immigration was not just citizens of Oklahoma but included citizens of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and Texas.
Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's famous novel about the Dust Bowl and the migration to California by an Okie family. It was made into a successful movie.
The loss of agricultural production helped to lengthen the Depression, not only in the US but worldwide. The displaced farmers became the migrants described in John Steinbeck's, Grapes of Wrath. Families from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas, packed what they could in cars and trucks and headed west. Most were aiming for California where they would become a class of migrant farmers, following the crops during the harvesting season.
Okie Noodling was created in 2001.
Okie Adams was born in 1923.
The duration of Okie Noodling is 3420.0 seconds.
Okie - album - was created on 1974-04-30.
Okie Baroque was created on 2010-11-30.
Okie from Muskogee was created on 1969-12-29.
Okie Adams died on 2007-11-16.
Okie from Muskogee was written by Merle Haggard and Roy Edward Burris
Okie from Muskogee - song - was created on 1969-07-17.
okie dokie is not a real word, its just a funny of saying ok. for example sometimes when i am in a good mood ill say okie dokie instead saying ok. as a conclusion okie dokie is just a happier and more cheer full way to say ok
Okie Dokie It's The Orb on Kompakt was created in 2005-10.
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