- West.
Prominent Okies included singer/songwriter
Woody Guthrie and
country musician Merle Haggard. John
Steinbeck wrote about Okies moving west in his...
- Look up
oky in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Oky is a
different spelling of okay. It may also
refer to:
Oky Derry Andryan (born 1993),
Indonesian soccer...
- When the
Okies left
Oklahoma and
moved to California, they
raised the
average intelligence level in both states. The joke's
premise is that
Okies (Dust Bowl...
- out for
California on the "mother road",
along with
thousands of
other "
Okies" s****ing jobs, land, dignity, and a ****ure. The
Grapes of
Wrath is frequently...
-
alongside migrant farm
workers in the 1910s,
before the
arrival of the
Okies whom he
would describe in his
novel The
Grapes of Wrath. The
title is taken...
- and New Mexico, but were
often generally called "
Okies", "Arkies", or "Texies".
Terms such as "
Okies" and "Arkies" came to be
standard in the 1930s for...
- north-northwest of Los
Angeles in Bakersfield, California,
where many "
Okies" and
other Dust Bowl
migrants had settled.
Influenced by one-time West Coast...
-
enforce a bum blockade."
Locals in
California took
advantage of the
influx of
Okies that
could be used for
agricultural labor but did not
hesitate to mistreat...
- The
Adventures of
Oky Doky is an
American children's
television program that
aired on the
DuMont Television Network on
Thursdays at 7pm ET from November...
-
foresee that most
Okies would move into well-paid jobs in war
industries in the 1940s. The
children and
grandchildren of the
Okies seldom returned to...
