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<blockquote data-quote="criticalbass" data-source="post: 1377231" data-attributes="member: 711"><p>The answer is, almost certainly not.</p><p></p><p>I thought I was the last person in the state who doesn't like the term "okie."</p><p></p><p>However, we seem to be stuck with the term, and in fairness, very few realize where the term came from or that anyone is offended by it.</p><p></p><p>I work with someone who has never lived outside OKC, and makes noises like a proud Oklahoman, but calls herself an okie. After fifteen or twenty comments from me about it being an offensive term, I have given up.</p><p></p><p>I expect a bunch of responses to this thread saying, in various ways, "get over it," and that may be what we should do.</p><p></p><p>We do have okies here, and have had more and more since the Silicon Valley crash a number of years ago. That's an okie who came back from California.</p><p></p><p>They say those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. Considering most of what is coming out of our public schools these days, and for the last good many years, the first time some of them even knew of the Great Depression was when it was being compared to what somebody recently called the "Great Recession."</p><p></p><p>I love Oklahoma. CB</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="criticalbass, post: 1377231, member: 711"] The answer is, almost certainly not. I thought I was the last person in the state who doesn't like the term "okie." However, we seem to be stuck with the term, and in fairness, very few realize where the term came from or that anyone is offended by it. I work with someone who has never lived outside OKC, and makes noises like a proud Oklahoman, but calls herself an okie. After fifteen or twenty comments from me about it being an offensive term, I have given up. I expect a bunch of responses to this thread saying, in various ways, "get over it," and that may be what we should do. We do have okies here, and have had more and more since the Silicon Valley crash a number of years ago. That's an okie who came back from California. They say those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. Considering most of what is coming out of our public schools these days, and for the last good many years, the first time some of them even knew of the Great Depression was when it was being compared to what somebody recently called the "Great Recession." I love Oklahoma. CB [/QUOTE]
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