Question

....I ignored them and climbed the back fence to see my best friend, Scott a second-generation okie. What is the meaning of the underlined term in this context

Answer 1

Answer:

Someone who is from the West and whose parents are from the West.

Explanation:

In Gary Sato's Like Mexicans, he tells the story of how his parents and family want him to marry a girl from his own race and ethnicity. They seemed to emphasize the importance of marrying within the same 'race', which he also tries hard to obey as far as he can.

In the given passage, Gary mentioned his best friend Scott as "a second-generation okie". And like he mentioned in the beginning of the story, and according to his grandmother, "everyone who wasn't Mexican, black or Asian were Okies". So, though Okie is a term generally used to refer to a resident of Oklahoma or a native of that place, Sato used this term as a generalized term for anyone from the West and whose parents are from the West.