I'm right there with you, @Fishrrman. Especially now that I've watched our spiral downward. 
And let's be sure to tell the Americans who lived in that era to be sure and procreate. Procreate, procreate, procreate. All assimilated Americans who love the American culture, make babies. And raise them right. They'll be badly needed in the future.
@Smokin Joe
Trust me. As someone who was there in '54, I know you'd love it. Remember that we're suspending reality, so we don't have to wait till you're actual birth date. Let's you, me and @Fishrrman get in our time machine and head back there. We can do '54 to '65 for as long as we want. But not one minute after '65.
My brother had arrived, I had not. I was still a twinkle in daddy's eye...but, I was around in '56...Not really politically aware yet, but here.
But I see 1965 as a cutoff because it was before the big military buildup in SE Asia, before the Great Society, Before the Communist New Left got it's foothold and flourished, before much of the (politically manipulated, not grievance based) racial strife we still see today*, and in an era when even most Democrats were flag waving Americans. Law and order were valued, and prosperity was there for the earning, no matter who you were. For some it was a bit harder, but merit was still the standard that got you through.
By 1968, all that had changed.
I'm not saying '54 was bad, Dad was back from Korea and all that, but the house I grew up in was finished the year I was born, a couple years later, and I recall my childhood as idyllic by today's standards. Besides, I started deer hunting in '65.
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I see today's racial strife as a manipulated outgrowth of the '60s era, but taking legitimate grievances of that time and extrapolating them beyond the atmosphere, for the benefit and glorification of those doing the extrapolating. Doing so only creates more problems than it ever had to solve, by making superficial characteristics the standard for advancement or achievement, not merit or capability. Where there was little resentment for those who deserved the positions they reached because of merit, and who possessed the ability to fulfill those duties, sometimes above and beyond the standards for the job, basing advancement on superficial qualities has only reignited any smoldering resentments which may have been present and created a justification for more, if even only applied on a generalized basis. Considering I recall a time when (at least where I grew up in Southern Maryland) we all did not only 'just get along', but worked together, played together, went to school together, and shared in the prosperity and tragedy that life brings, the developments since then have only caused great division and enmity where there could have been none, and widened the cultural divide between Americans, not bridged the gaps.
