Why would western states treat Okies so poorly? A. Westerners did not like outsiders in their territory.

B. Government forced these workers onto western states.

C. There was a negative image of migrant farmers created by the media.

D. The Okies had committed many crimes traveling west.

Because they arrived impoverished and because wages were low, many lived in filth and squalor in tents and shantytowns along the irrigation ditches. Consequently, they were despised as "Okies," a term of disdain, even hate, pinned on economically degraded farm laborers no matter their state of origin.

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a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”