Over all - was life better 50 years go today - or was it worse?

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15. There was a whole lot of racial problems that have been mainstreamed and then

subsided as integration at all levels started in with Ike and Little Rock.

A whole lot of communities are integrated.

A whole wonderful banquet of mainstreamed ethnic assimilation give the US a rich cultural stew.

Education is almost universal.

Environmental issues are being addressed instead of ignored.

College education has been democratized with the community college in every community has become the norm.

What the original post says about mid century America is also gone the way of Amos and Andy on the radio.

There was no interstate system. For every little town is true but for every Mayberry there was grinding sharecropping.

For every Mayberry there was a Bugtussel, the home of the Clampet family before Jed shot some oil on his property and moved to Beverly Hills.

Btw, we had milk and bread and potato ships delivered to our homes up until the mid 6o's here in Northeast Ohio.