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I have friends like that. I then tease them about coming from the wrong stock.
I won't pretend it isn't a loaded term. As a kid in CA, I was kicked out of a store more than once because I was one of those Okie kids. Out there someone calls you an Okie, it depends on who they are and what the context is. I won't pretend it was nearly as bad, but in some ways it was like the N word to an African American. A fellow Okie calls you an Okie and it is a term of endearment or a tease. Someone who obviously isn't one calls you that and you take a good hard look for context and body language. It is more than likely an insult. I saw my uncle ready to fight a man for calling him an Okie, but him and my dad called each other that all the time.
Once I used it in front of my former mother in law, who was from PA but had lived in CA for quite a bit by then. Rich folks. I said something about my Okie family. She said, "Oh, don't be so hard on them. People can't help the way they are." I was a little stunned. I think that ticked me off more than if she would have called them Okies the wrong way.