Okies
ethnic group in the United States; originally a usually disparaging slang term, referring to an Oklahoman
The Okies were economic migrants from Oklahoma who traveled to California en masse in the Great Depression.
Quotes
edit- "A car with three mattresses strapped to its roof meant a family of rich Okies; two mattresses meant mediocre wealth; and a lone mattress meant the Okies inside were dirt poor."
- Kansas folklore, as quoted by Michael Wallis in Route 66: The Mother Road (1990).