“Robert Byrd used to crack me up when he started rambling on about growing up without indoor plumbing of electricity as a means of showing how poor he was. The problem is that when he was a kid, the majority of Americans lived the same way.”
Yes, he was quite the Foghorn Leghorn humbug. He actually was a talented bluegrass singer. I bet on judgement day he wishes he had left the Ku Klux Klan and Democrat party alone and had stuck with Bluegrass.
I was born in 64 and there were still a considerable number of Americans living without indoor plumbing. I’d guess at least 15 or 20 percent.
In the late 70s I helped my grandfather wire the bathroom for the last house in our little town that still had an outhouse. A decade later, the farm across the street from me didn’t have an indoor bathroom.