Okie
1930s farm refugee
Okie is informal for a person from Oklahoma.
The term gained prominence during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, when impoverished farmers fled Oklahoma for California, where Okie became a slur suggesting poor, uneducated migrants.
Today most Oklahomans use it neutrally or with pride: I'm an Okie born and raised.
South Central U.S. state
- SoonerOklahoma resident or premature settler
- TulsaNortheastern Oklahoma metropolis
- Oklahoma CityCentral plains metropolis
- panhandleGeographic arm of territory
prairie · heartland · twang · drawl · rodeo · cowboy · country · rural
Thirties prairie ecological collapse
- Grapes of WrathDepression-era migrant novel
- Route 66Historic cross-country highway
- migrantOne who relocates
- displacedShifted from proper location
Steinbeck · refugee · sharecropper · tenant farmer · exodus · California · labor camp · Hooverville
Adequate or permitted
- affirmationPositive statement of truth
- agreementShared position between parties
- acknowledgmentConfirmation of receipt
- alrightAcceptably adequate
Oklahoma
South Central U.S. state
- SoonerOklahoma resident or premature settler
- TulsaNortheastern Oklahoma metropolis
- Oklahoma CityCentral plains metropolis
panhandle · prairie · heartland · twang · drawl · rodeo · cowboy · country · rural · Southern
Dust Bowl
Thirties prairie ecological collapse
- Grapes of WrathDepression-era migrant novel
- Route 66Historic cross-country highway
- migrantOne who relocates
Steinbeck · displaced · refugee · sharecropper · tenant farmer · exodus · California · labor camp · Hooverville · picker
okay
Adequate or permitted
- affirmationPositive statement of truth
- agreementShared position between parties
- acknowledgmentConfirmation of receipt
alright · sure · yep · got it · understood · roger · will do
- Regional LabelsYankee, Midwesterner, Texan, Californian, New Englander
Person from the west coast state
native Californian · Californian · local · old-timer · landowner
Okiegrower
One who raises plants
landowner · landed gentry · employer · establishment · old money
OkieYankee
Person from northeastern states
New Yorker · coastal elite · Californian · California native · city slicker
- okie dokieCasual affirmative reply