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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chuckie" data-source="post: 4068381" data-attributes="member: 42584">I very much agree about people thinking they are informed based only on their own personal experience.  One problem with a lot of people here is that they have the 'its my way or the highway' attitude even IF they are shown that what they believe is not entirely true.Came across the same thing from several of the 'ole Kansas farmers when I lived in Hutchinson, you know, the 80+ year old guys that have never been outside of their county and only knew what they knew . . . so EVERYBODY else was wrong!To reiterate, most 'Dust Bowl' refugees that left (most to California) found good paying jobs, bought houses, sent their kids to schools, and generally made a good life for themselves, only leaving when they could no longer afford to live in California based on their [eventual] retirement pay.  Sure, a few probably did come back to Oklahoma as soon as they could after the 'Dust Bowl' crisis was reduced, but most no longer owned their land/farms (repossessed by the bank) so they had nothing to come back to, and the Red/Blue (Conservative/Liberal) State divide wasn't really a thing 85 years ago.Most of those refugees simply found a better, easier (than farming) life in a land that had better weather and more recreational things for their kids to do than Oklahoma had.</blockquote>