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The migrants of The Grapes of Wrath largely came from a hundred-mile radius around Oklahoma City, the metropolis "born grown," following the Land Run of ‘89. In weeks, the place went from a one-building rail stop to a tented city of 10,000. A century later, it had become "the nation’s most homogenous city and one of its most socially conservative," according to a study of Sunbelt cities. After World War II, a civic elite of bankers, oil men, and press barons used profits from a booming aircraft industry to redevelop downtown with skyscrapers. Oklahoma City's image as a cowtown gave way to a bustling city of half a million, but its stockyards remain. |
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