***I hear about southern towns just like Mayberry where robbery, drugs and
some
other unmentionable things are going on.
Is there no place decent anymore?***
Keep in mind Mayberry was an idealized utopia itself. Real small towns had
more than their share of problems in the 1960s (**especially** southern towns),
which I won't go into here. Even setting aside the "signs of the times," I
know a lot of small towns where cliquishness, clannishness, and judgmentalism
ran/run wild. Maybe the PTA is run by the parent with the biggest, nastiest
mouth (because everyone wants to shut him/her up), or the city council passes
something just because the guy who runs the hardware store wants it and not
because it makes sense. And feeling left out in the midst of a big city (or
other heavily populated community, like a college campus) is one thing, but
feeling left out in a small town where everyone knows each other is a special
kind of hurt.
Mayberry shows us all not what is, or even what ever was, but what could be.
Even Mayberry had its problems (socio-political and otherwise...remember when
Ellie ran for town council?) but its heart was always in the right place.
Dixon
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