“It would be difficult to contend that, the end of racial segregation aside, American culture today is superior to, or even on a par with, the culture of the 1950s.”
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That line caught my attention as well. I remember the film
Pleasantville and how it promoted just the opposite view; how 1950's America was sooo repressive, and how things started to get better only when the female protagonist had sex with an unsuspecting high school date. It was clearly driven by, and symptomatic of, mass media's effort to undermine that which is good about traditional values.
And yet one of the chief criticisms I hear of Santorum is that he's trying to take the country back to the 1950's (racial segregation aside).