True, I grew up in deep South Texas where life was simple. Those are just things we’ve always heard about in the ‘60s.
The 1960s were probably like any other time in American history except by then we had the news media telling us each evening what our fellow citizens somewhere else were doing. There was good and bad as in the 1960s as in any era but in keeping with the automobile topic of this thread, the Big Three began their long slide to the poorhouse not withstanding some great muscle cars. The French-designed Simcas zipped around larger Chevys and Fords on the new freeways like sparrows around hawks and Studebaker found a temporary refuge in Canada. I would say that the 1960s were a pivotal point for American automakers.