Butte and Anaconda were different from most of the State in that the people did not come here to be cowboys or farmers. In Anaconda, you were a boomer unless you were "born" here!! I have found a reference in the last year that the term was never applied until the folks from North Dakota came during the Depression!! Thought that was pretty funny. On a more serious note, the contempt for newbies all boiled down to who was the last bunch to arrive - at least in this area!! Not black, red, yellow or white, but which batch just arrived! The last ones here more or less were North Dakota farmers escaping the dust bowl.
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