WOW! I pretty much thought the show was red, white and blue. Hot girl, good looking manly men, family ties.....pretty slapstick and stuff, but you could watch it with your gramma and not be embarrased, unlike much of TV now.
One thing that disturbed me about the show was the lack of a family headed by a happily married couple. As far as I recall, the only main character in a marriage is Boss Hogg, and that's a pretty disfunctional marraige at that.
I've noticed a similar pattern for a lot of supposedly "wholesome" shows from the late 1960's and 1970's: lack of a traditional family for the main characters. See also Andy Griffith and the Brady Bunch. Where is Opie's mother? Where are the previous spouses of Mr. and Mrs. Brady? And of course, with the Dukes, where are Bow, Luke and Daisy's parents? Why are they all living with their Uncle? I'm not sure whether this was an attempt by avant guard writers to undermine the traditional family, but it sure is weird.