Even after the Gold Rush of 1849, it's really only until the Great Depression with the Okies fleeing the Dust Bowl for farms in the Central Valley (see: Woody Guthrie and the family of the aforementioned Merle Haggard) that California became the highly populated, urbanized state that it is today.
people forget california was cowboy country
Even after the Gold Rush of 1849, it's really only until the Great Depression with the Okies fleeing the Dust Bowl for farms in the Central Valley (see: Woody Guthrie and the family of the aforementioned Merle Haggard) that California became the highly populated, urbanized state that it is today.
you could still make jokes about most californians being country hicks in like, the 70s
See: Yosemite Sam