"They hate you ’cause they’re scairt. They know a hungry fella gonna get food even if he got to take it. They know that fallow lan’s a sin an’ somebody’ gonna take it."
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 18. A man swimming in the Colorado River who is returning from California tells the Joads about the prejudice towards migrants there. The people of California hate the hungry migrants because they are scared of them, he says.