The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American ... and they were called “Okies” and “Arkies” by the locals regardless of where they came from.

And in the latter part of the decade, notions of the Dust Bowl migrants as Okies and Arkies - the term "Okie" and "Arkie" became a very derogatory concept and sort of carried some of the stigmas ...

John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath provides a verbal mural depicting America's experience in the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, with its migration of "Okies" from ruined farmlands in Oklahoma and Texas to ...