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These 20 counties that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Soil Conservation Service identified as the worst wind-eroded region were home to the majority of the Great Plains migrants during the Dust Bowl. [40] While migration from and between the Southern Great Plain States was greater than migration in other regions in the 1930s, the numbers ...
[31] [32] But the combination of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl introduced a new type of migrant worker: the white American family, women and children included. They came from "the agricultural populations of Oklahoma , Nebraska , and parts of Kansas and Texas" most affected by the Dust Bowl . [ 33 ]
Lastly, natural disasters can often be single-point events that lead to temporarily massive rural-urban migration flows. The 1930s Dust Bowl in the United States, for example, led to the flight of 2.5 million people from the Plains by 1940, many to the new cities in the West.
The history of the Arvin Federal Government Camp begins with the migration of people displaced by the events of the Dust Bowl in the mid-1930s. A combination of droughts and high intensity dust storms forced many farmers in areas such as Oklahoma to vacate and find a new beginning. In the summer of 1934 the date July 24th marked the 36th ...
Those who had lost their homes and livelihoods in the Dust Bowl were lured westward by advertisements for work put out by agribusiness in western states, such as California. The migrants came to be called Okies , Arkies , and other derogatory names as they flooded the labor supply of the agricultural fields, driving down wages, pitting ...
The Will Rogers phenomenon, also rarely called the Okie paradox, [1] is when moving an observation from one group to another increases the average of both groups. It is named after a joke attributed to the comedian Will Rogers about Dust Bowl migration during the Great Depression: [2]
The Dust Bowl was a severe environmental disaster that struck the Great Plains region of the United States during the 1930s, exacerbating the economic hardships of the Great Depression. Prolonged drought and poor agricultural practices led to massive dust storms that rendered vast areas of farmland unusable.
The Dust Bowl and the "Okie" migration of the 1930s brought in over a million migrants, many headed to the farm labor jobs in the Central Valley. A study in the 1990s indicated that about 3.75 million Californians were descendants of this population. [ 3 ]