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The general idea of what my paper will be about will be how migration and cultural change often leads to authoritarian government. This can be seen during the book with how the California government creates almost vigilante justice to stop the ecological refugees. This point is fascinating especially, because of the fact that instead of helping their own citizens the government of California decided to trample the God-given rights of their fellow Americans to protect themselves from a problem they helped create. The short-sightedness of the California government is not unique to its situation. Over the course of the last century and into the 21 century we have experienced the rise of fascism. In an interview with NBC News, Medina Albright talks about how " out of social, economic, or political chaos fascism will rise"Stuff that will help . Her point rings true within the world of the Grapes of Wrath because the characters are set in a place that has all three of these types of chaos and the California government acts as most governments do and gain characteristics of a fascist regime. Furthermore, the idea of authoritarianism actions out of social unrest is not new in America. Shortly after the great depression, the united states government responded to the perceived threat of Japanese citizens being agents of the Japanese empire. Because of this cultural chaos as the government saw it, they suspended the rights of these American citizens just to retain some form of fabricated social order. There is a great article explaining the actions of the government and the problems it caused for the Japanese that were forced to relocate written by the Smithsonian. Stuff that is cool and helpful

Lastly, I'm going to link in some stuff about the lives of the Japanese that lived in the camps it's a really amazing book similar to the way the Joads dealt with hardship. book stuff