Okie
As Okie is called a resident of the State of Oklahoma .
In the 1930s, the concept won another meaning, calling migrant workers from the Midwest , as a result of the Great Depression ( Great Depression ) from 1929 and the Great Drought ( Dust Bowl ) 1935-1938 many farmers from the Midwest because of the task of their farms moved to California in hopes of work , with most of the migrant workers coming from Oklahoma, i.e. Okies . There they competed with workers from Latin America and the Philippines about jobs as day laborers in agriculture and the processing industry.
Because of their backwoods behavior and their poverty, they were viewed pejoratively by the Californians. Okie is a resident of the American Midwest who is a bit clumsy.
Artistic processing
The fate of the Okies in the 30s was, among others, the writer John Steinbeck 's novel The Grapes of Wrath ( Grapes of Wrath , 1939) and by the folk singer Woody Guthrie , the one itself Okie described was.
The Country singer Merle Haggard ended in 1969 with the song from Okie Muskogee a No. 1 hit. Okie is also the name of an album by JJ Cale .
Okie paradox
The humorist and philosopher Will Rogers created the most famous example of the stage migration paradox when he said: “ When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states. "(German:" When the residents of Oklahoma moved to California, they raised the average intelligence in both states. ")