There used to be a neighborhood in Stockton called Okieville, where many transplanted Oklahomans lived. It is said that they liked to drive Chevrolet Monte Carlos from the mid-1970’s. Okieville was a “red” neighborhood that went for Pat Buchanan when he ran for president in the 1990’s.
I haven’t been to Stockton in a number of years, but from what I have heard, those living in that neighborhood today are more likely to hail from Oaxaca than Oklahoma.
“Okieville” may have moved on to Bakersfield. When I
was in college on the Central Coast in the early 70s
there was a number of fellow students from that area.
Their parents had migrated to escape the dust bowl of
the 1930s. I knew students who were born in California
and raised in the greater Bakersfield area who spoke
with a cool Oklahoma drawl. As to Stockton whether you
travel on I-5 on the West side or Hwy 99 on the East
side of town your life is in danger. Those Asian and
Hispanic kids are pure freeway maniacs zipping in and
out of traffic in those little coupes.