It very much tried to peel back the curtain on what the average not quite middle class southern family was like in an era where you couldn’t as easily talk to them from across the nation. Facebook wasn’t around yet, AIM and MySpace were the norm, and it’s generally accepted that while MANY were racist, it was based on ignorance and not hatred.

It was a very different time, and I wholeheartedly believe it was a pivotal timr in which things could have gone the other way.