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The lived experience of the Okies in California in the 1930s might be worth investigating before developing any grand schemes restricting internal migration. h
by onecommentman 5y ago
The lived experience of the Okies in California in the 1930s might be worth investigating before developing any grand schemes restricting internal migration.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-18-me-622-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-18-me-622-st...
https://www.sidmartinbio.org/how-were-the-okies-treated-when-they-came-to-california/ https://www.sidmartinbio.org/how-were-the-okies-treated-when...
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ca-bumblockade/ https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ca-bumblockade/
Does the Pacific Coast want to reinstitute “bum blockades”?
Past Pacific Coast strategies for managing the unwanted included offering a reward for scalps of the unwanted, like the State of California had implemented for First Nations peoples in the 1850s…
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2008/8/14/567667/- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2008/8/14/567667/-
The Pacific Coast States in the US era have made some really bad missteps in addressing problems like this over the years. May just be a case of taking the “good” (weather) with the “bad” US citizens (that just aren’t as socially or economically desirable). The homeless/van life are living a lifestyle that, for hundreds of years prior to the Anglos/RR, was perfectly acceptable in that/your part of the country. Not an easy problem to address.