The 1930s saw the migration of hundreds of thousands from the U.S. prairie states such as Texas and Oklahoma westward, especially to California. Over-farming without taking adequate precautions against erosion had turned millions of acres to dust, and severe drought conditions transformed the entire prairie into a great “Dust Bowl” for much of the decade.
Why did so many prairie-state farming families migrate westward during the 1930s?
Their migration was mainly owing to
Explanation
During the 1930s, drought and dust storms made for difficult or, in some areas, intolerable living conditions in the prairie states.