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The Dust Bowl was horrible, but I haven’t heard any references to it in the cultural psyche past the 1940s. What sorts of social scars/after effects stretched into later decades, if any?

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The Dust Bowl was horrible, but I haven’t heard any references to it in the cultural psyche past the 1940s. What sorts of social scars/after effects stretched into later decades, if any?	448
How was 1950s White American mainstream culture perceived by the grandparents of the time?	83