the okies went to kansas during the dust bowl.
where did the okies go during the dust bowl?
kansas
while the term "the dust bowl" was originally a reference to the geographical area affected by the dust, today it usually refers to the event itself (the term "dirty thirties" is also sometimes used).the drought and erosion of the dust bowl affected that centered on the panhandles of texas and oklahoma and touched adjacent sections of new mexico, colorado, and kansas.the dust bowl forced tens of thousands of poverty-stricken families to abandon their farms, unable to pay mortgages or grow crops, and losses reached $25 million per day by 1936 (). many of these families, who were often known as "okies" because so many of them came from oklahoma, migrated to california and other states to find that the great depression had rendered economic conditions there little better than those they had left.
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the dust bowl was a period of severe dust storms during the 1930s depression era.





























dust bowl may also refer to:





























bullet::::- "the dust bowl" (film), a 2012 pbs documentary on the dust bowl directed by ken burns





























bullet::::- "dust bowl", a short story from issue #4 of the series "tales of the vampires"





























bullet::::- "dust bowl", a song from the 10,000 maniacs album "blind man's zoo"





























bullet::::- "dustbowl" (album), a 1988 album by head of david





























bullet::::- "dust bowl" (album), by joe bonamassa
dust bowl (disambiguation)