An article on pbs.org states” By 1940, 2.5 million people had moved out of the Plains states; of those, 200,000 moved to California.”. However they were not welcomed especially in California. The article continues to say The Los Angeles police chief went so far as to send 125 policemen to act as bouncers at the state border, turning away “undesirables”.The articles continues stating “Arriving in California, the migrants were faced with a life almost as difficult as the one they had left. Many California farms were corporate-owned. They were larger and more modernized that those of the southern plains, and the crops were unfamiliar.”. Even when they arrived to California or any other state they fled to it was still hard and very different compared to their lives back from where they came
An article on pbs.org states” By 1940, 2.5 million people had moved out of the Plains states; of those, 200,000 moved to California.”. However they were not welcomed especially in California. The article continues to say The Los Angeles police chief went so far as to send 125 policemen to act as bouncers at the state border, turning away “undesirables”.The articles continues stating “Arriving in California, the migrants were faced with a life almost as difficult as the one they had left. Many California farms were corporate-owned. They were larger and more modernized that those of the southern plains, and the crops were unfamiliar.”. Even when they arrived to California or any other state they fled to it was still hard and very different compared to their lives back from where they came