You've encountered part of the FreeRepublic contingent which greets any sort of nostalgia with "Oh? So want segregation and Jim Crow to come back, do you???"
Personally, I say: Everyone -- everyone -- had it better in the 1950s.
57 posted on 02/18/2012 8:42:20 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
("And the public gets what the public wants" -- The Jam)