Retirement in Oklahoma offers a variety of landscapes from small mountain ranges to prairies to eastern forests. It has one of the fastest growing economies in the nation ranking among the top states in per capita income growth and gross domestic product growth. More than 25 Native American languages are spoken in Oklahoma, the most in any state. Although no one is sure why, its nickname is the Sooner state. It could be that someone did not know how to spell “schooner”, short for “Prairie Schooner”, the wagons in which the settlers arrived. It could be that the settlers rushing for the land grab of the western expansion were all yelling, “We have to get there sooner than the others or the land will be gone” The most logical explanation is that during the great depression, when Oklahoma was the center of the dust bowl, everyone was saying, “The sooner we get out of this hell-hole, the sooner we can breath again.”
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