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Originally Posted by Centropolis
of course, not saying it was first but sort of painting the playing field circa 1920 i think is fair.
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It's unclear if Beverly Hills, Missouri even existed in 1920, though. That was my point.
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Originally Posted by Centropolis
i think theres some taking for granted how the u.s. was weighted before 1950. los angeles was still thought of as full of poor okies and east coast scam artists and wasnt considered to be a “serious” place until the 1950s sort of like how large texas cities are today.
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I think that timeline is off.
Okies came during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression in the 1930s, and they certainly made their mark, but they were by no means the majority of the population, ever. The LA Times estimates that as many as
500,000 Okies moved to the state in a decade that held title to the state's slowest growth rate of the 20th century until about 1980.
Contrast that with the massive movement of people into California upon America's entry into WWII. California grew 53% in the 1940s, and much of that was from the millions of people who brought their families with them so they could work in the massive military installations and defense plants that proliferated up and down the state during the war. They came from everywhere, and included the forefathers/mothers of California's modern African American communities. After the war, many of those servicemembers and former defense plant workers settled permanently, altering the state forever.
California was a 'serious place' well before the mid-1950s, and the state's position on the Pacific coast during WWII had a lot to do with that.
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