# Where is Oklahoma?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-oklahoma/420735>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 27, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-oklahoma/420735 "2007-09-27T21:27:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2007, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-oklahoma/420735/101 "2007-09-29T23:42:55Z")

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[QUOTE=Miscue]  
Good question…I’m thinking that if they did it would tear a rip in the fabric of reality.  
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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2007, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-oklahoma/420735/102 "2007-09-30T02:53:16Z")

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[QUOTE=vetbridge]  
I met a veterinarian from Oklahoma once and I called her an Okie. She was offended. She told me it was a derogatory term. Then again, she was a bitch in general.  
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She must have been a bitch. Okie did start out as a derogatory term, from the Depression and Dust Bowl days – they kept showing up in California equipped like the Clampett family – but like Yankee, it’s since become rather innocuous. Indeed, many Okies wear it as a badge of pride (especially if they’re from Muskogee. (“Okie from Muskogee.” But maybe not too many here are old enough to remember that song. ☹ )

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