How right you are Robmic. Life was like that even in larger cities. I grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana, a city of about 250,000 people in the 1960s and early 1970s and life was a lot like it was in Petticoat Junction in terms of people's manners and actions.
Children were taught to respect their elders and to respect other people's property. Family was very important as well. My guess is that all through out the South during that era, life was much like that. I know people who grew up in Tulsa, OK, in the 1960s and life was also like that in Petticoat Junction.
My guess is that the sexual revolution and drug culture that really took over in the mid-1970s degraded our society. And now we're left with a country that is a mere shadow of its former greatness.
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