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There are also several areas where large groups of Rednecks live outside of their normal ranges. One is Bakersfield, California and the surrounding area, which experienced mass migration by Arkansans (Arkies) and Oklahomans (Okies) during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl era of the 1930s, by folk seeking to leave poverty and crop failures behind them. In the 1950s, Bakersfield country musicians such as Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and Wynn Stewart helped develop a unique country music style called the Bakersfield sound. Their influence ...

Redneck: Encyclopedia II - Redneck - Extraterritorial Conclaves

Redneck - Extraterritorial Conclaves

In the 1950s, Bakersfield country musicians such as Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and Wynn Stewart helped develop a unique country music style called the Bakersfield sound. Their influence was so great that Bakersfield is second only to Nashville, Tennessee, in country music fame. Bakersfield continues to produce and influence famous country music artists.

Other extraterritorial conclaves can be found throughout the oil-producing areas of Alaska. In the second half of the 20th-Century, concurrent with the development of the oil industry and pipeline, large numbers of Gulf Coast petroleum workers moved to Alaska for high pay and adventure - and many stayed.

This phenomenon is not unique. Yankees also have extraterritorial enclaves in areas such as South Florida and Cary, North Carolina aka (Concentrated Area of Relocated Yankees),

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