I always wondered what happened to all those tenant farmers who left Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl in search of employment in California. An article in The Nation magazine gave a brief comment on this question. "In the boom days of the 1930's it was a textbook company town (Boron, California), where employees of what was then called Pacific Borax-many of them...Dust Bowl Oklahomans-lived in company houses and used company script to shop at the company store". (Doesn't sound much different from the movie version of "Grapes of Wrath).
(Source: "Labor war in the Mojave" by Mike Davis. The Nation 3/29/10)
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