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>From: John Gulick <john_gulick at hotmail.com>
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>Whoa, how 'bout those Okies from Muskogee? You'd think they are a distinct minority in Kern Co by now.
Why would you think that? We're not talking ancient history.
Here's the beginning of a Monthly Review article from Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz:
http://monthlyreview.org/2002/07/01/one-or-two-things-i-know-about-us
While at work on this paper, I glanced at the headline in the morning newspaper: “SWAT Team Kills Gunman at Sacramento Tax Office,” and I said to myself, “Probably an Okie.” I read the article and found no reference to Okies—that would never happen in California these days—but the evidence was there: A white man named Jim Ray Holloway, age fifty-three, from Manteca, wearing a cowboy hat, carrying a rifle, a shotgun, and a hand gun, ex-cop, mad about taxes. The name, the age, the hometown in the agricultural Central Valley, the cowboy hat, the kinds of weapons, the career, the lightening rage at the state, all point to his being an Okie.