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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chuckie" data-source="post: 4068255" data-attributes="member: 42584">" The majority of those migrant workers came straight back to the old sold when dust bowl ended. " It's closer to the fact that after finding good paying jobs and experiencing a better lifestyle (than dirt farming) in places like California, very few people that fled the Oklahoma 'Dust Bowl' returned to the State after the crisis ended.  By the time that happened many had jobs in the ship-building, aircraft, and munition factories swhich were booming at the start of, and during, World War II.Most of the 'Dust Bowl' refugees returning back to Oklahoma only did so upon retirement or when their 'fixed-income' could not cover the ever-rising cost of living and daily expenses of California.</blockquote>