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Published: April 28, 2009
The evolution of the "Okie" name
Seventy years after John Steinbeck published his Pulitzer Prize -winning novel “The Grapes of Wrath,” his words sift in the consciousness of Oklahomans everywhere like the billowing dust clouds that framed his epic.
In one sweeping work Steinbeck caused a national sensation in 1939 and in the process defined an Oklahoman.
He did so mostly with one word: “Okie.”
Is the nickname a derogatory term?...
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