Sloppily written, but people with rose-colored glasses welded to their faces will eat this stuff up.
But then again a rural Virginia small town in the 50s(?) isn’t exactly a template for what most of the nation was even remotely like.
Agreed. I like Fred and wish he had at least run a spellcheck on the article. His experiences in Virginia tracked pretty well with mine in north Texas, with the exception of the athletics. It was easy to avoid taking PE classes, and I took full advantage of it, as did others.
Schooling didn’t include economics because it was too ‘depressing.’ Evolution was glossed over, if not ignored completely. Calculus was a college thing.
Being the children of the WWII generation, we thought it only natural to go into the military, and virtually everyone I knew did. Patriotism meant more than waving a flag.
Merle Haggard’s Okie From Muskogee is an accurate portrayal of the time, though Merle now claims the song was a send-up. I think he just wants to please his leftist friends.