USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -100, 000 Dust Bowl migrants chose to live in Los Angeles; 70, 000 chose to live in the San Joaquin Valley.

Detailed explanation-2: -Like the Joad family in John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”, some 40 percent of migrant farmers wound up in the San Joaquin Valley, picking grapes and cotton. They took up the work of Mexican migrant workers, 120, 000 of whom were repatriated during the 1930s.

Detailed explanation-3: -The migrants represented in Voices from the Dust Bowl came primarily from Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri. Most were of Anglo-American descent with family and cultural roots in the poor rural South.