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I didn’t catch the name of the episode, but it aired in October 1967 and one of the guest stars was Carroll O’Connor (Archie Bunker from All in the Family)

The contrast between that story and the advanced stage of civil rights struggles in 1967 is striking to me. It indicates a pop culture pander to supremacist nostalgia if not pop culture propaganda against civil rights gains.

But it was clearly a Lost Cause teleplay: War of Northern Aggression overtones; relatively benign Texans plagued by Yankee soldiers characterized as exploitative, thieving, and murderous; hesitant expressions of mutual respect between mortal enemies, thus redeeming Confederates.

Note: this was before #Oct7

Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan made a patsy of PATCO the previous year to get their endorsement. Sure, they were victims, but Reagan was an inveterate liar and a despicable Red Scare snitch. Reagan’s move against PATCO had a chilling effect on labor organizing for years.

Choosing between “Higher Ground” and “Living for the City”? I just can’t.

Any history of desegregation should include all institutional obstacles to desegregation. Lost Cause academics were bad actors in the same cast as Bull Connor and George Wallace. They groomed generations of white students.

And just like that, littlenomad disappeared from my TL as mysteriously as he appeared.