The "Rural Purge" was a major factor in the decline of American society.
I read about the rural purge. Took away a lot of the good stuff and paved they way for the commie-led perversion.
I can’t imagine those shows lasting much longer than they did past 1970, purge or not. Two years tops for some (such as “Mayberry RFD”, which really ceased to be after Griffith and Knotts left). Even “Gunsmoke”, which survived the initial purge, was running on fumes by the time it was cancelled in 1975. Cancelling “Hee Haw” was dumb, since it had barely gotten started and ended up being a huge hit in syndication.
Even so, the rapid social decline was already occurring even as those shows still aired (by 1965).
Well the Libs (particularly Norman Lear)
took over SeeBS. They dumped all country fare and gave us All in the Family, Maude and The Jeffersons.