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Historically, Oklahoma has been the least valuable and thus least desirable chunk of land in the continental US. It was the third to last of the lower 48 to become a state at all, and was mostly used as a dumping ground for Native Americans that were living on more useful land farther east (my Cherokee forefathers among them). My great-grandfather was born on the res, and it was a shithole then. My grandmother was born off the res but in Oklahoma, and it was still a shithole. So much of a shithole, in fact, that John Steinbeck wrote a book about a poor Okie family trying to get the hell away from it. Unfortunately, Oklahoma is still a shithole to this day, and if "backwater" means anything in the US, it means Oklahoma.
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