[Fiji Hill]

I’m also beginning to wonder if programs like “Hee Haw” and “Mama’s Family” and “In the Heat of the Night” will be regarded with the same suspicion of Southern bigotry as if on the same scale as “The Birth of a Nation”.

When it opened in 1947, the popular Broadway musical Finian's Rainbow was almost certainly hailed as "progressive" for its attack on Jim Crow and race prejudice. Today, it would be considered highly "racist" for its portrayal of Southern folkways, so don't hold your breath waiting for some theatrical troupe to revive it.

[glabbe]

Some thing that will have to change:

The song was #245 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.

Pitchfork Media named it the forty-second best song of the Sixties. The song is included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s “500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll” and Time Magazine’s All-Time 100 (from Wikipidia).